Tim B. Lee met me today in NYC at
SpeechTEK and he had a lot to say about standards. Tim B. Lee is associated with such standards as HTML, HTTP and URL, he told a good story about how URL became URL through the efforts of several comities over many years. The
W3C creates comities who work out problems and try to reach conclusions to help lead the web to it's potential. Just as American democracy works best when everybody votes, the
W3C would like more people to
sign-up to help them reach their potential.