> The task of addressing all ten thousand or so ISO-member
> comments, even after removing dupes, and dealing with the
> callouts to unspecified product behavior, and so on, with no
> assurance that doing so would result in ISO blessing, seems
> just insanely expensive and difficult to me.
Actually, 10,000 comments on a 6,000 page spec doesn't sound like a large
number to me. If I had less than two comments per page on a book or spec I
had submitted for technical review, I would be concerned that the review
wasn't thorough enough. Perhaps people were holding back because they don't
want to provide MS with a free QA service.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
