(2002-05-09) b

Edd Dumbill on Tim Berners Lee's speech rallying for patent-free web standards. Includes link to Tim's slides. He described how accessing a web page today involved many layers of standards... each layer of which relies critically on the layer below. As Berners-Lee is fond of noting, the web is "not done yet", therefore it is not unreasonable to imagine a future with a similar number of layers built upon the existing ones. For that reason, it is still highly critical that the "communal" nature of the specifications is preserved.