How many times will there remain the confusion between what is achievably optimal and what is permitted? From: jamesd@netcom.com (James A. Donald) Now plainly they should listen very carefully to what the guys at CERN say about SGML tags, but as far as I can see, the groups that you want them to take consensus with, have no standing in this matter. This is all very Libertarianly Correct, certainly, but it may also be downright stupid. If one WWW company manages to fragment the web, the total value available to all drops, and it may also be that individual value is also less. Communications technologies have use-value superlinear in the number of people using compatible systems, so fragmentation always reduces total value. Whether the individual fragmented value is greater or larger than an individual non-fragmented value I cannot say. I do know that free software has this tendency to be easily replaceable. Eric