2 This does not mean, of course, that the author approves of the level of corporate arrogance with which such innovations are customarily announced. Neither, apparently, does the rest of the Net audience. Corporations such as Netscape Communications which have repeatedly used this tactic now seem to be at some pains to assert that they are good guys with deep respect for standards. It may also be that this kind of good citizenship is much easier now that it is apparent that there is no money to be made in the browser market.

3 As evidence I offer the OSI standards process, which while both comprehensive and representative went for 14 years without producing a full implementation of the specification and is, for all intents and purposes, a dead nag at this point.

4 Like the rest of TEI this is essentially an effort to construct an SGML Document Type Definition (DTD) which will preserve the full range of value represented in a legal document.

5 There is no better evidence to support this contention than the history of viable expert systems in the realm of tax law. Successful adaptation of this technology took place entirely under the auspices of accounting firms.