I just noticed that last week the W3C published a working draft specification for The XMLHttpRequest Object.
I found the end of the working draft somewhat interesting. Read through
the list of references and authors of the specifcation below
References
This section is normative
- DOM3
- Document Object Model
(DOM) Level 3 Core Specification, Arnaud Le Hors
(IBM), Philippe Le Hégaret (W3C), Lauren Wood (SoftQuad, Inc.), Gavin Nicol
(Inso EPS), Jonathan Robie (Texcel Research and
Software AG), Mike Champion (Arbortext and Software
AG), and Steve Byrne (JavaSoft).
- RFC2119
- Key words for use in
RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, S.
Bradner.
- RFC2616
- Hypertext Transfer
Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, R. Fielding (UC
Irvine), J. Gettys (Compaq/W3C), J. Mogul (Compaq), H. Frystyk
(W3C/MIT), L. Masinter (Xerox), P. Leach (Microsoft), and T. Berners-Lee
(W3C/MIT).
B. Authors
This section is informative
The authors of this document are the members of the W3C Web APIs Working Group.
- Robin Berjon, Expway (Working Group Chair)
- Ian Davis, Talis Information Limited
- Gorm Haug Eriksen, Opera Software
- Marc Hadley, Sun Microsystems
- Scott Hayman, Research In Motion
- Ian Hickson, Google
- Björn Höhrmann, Invited Expert
- Dean Jackson, W3C
- Christophe Jolif, ILOG
- Luca Mascaro, HTML Writers Guild
- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software
- T.V. Raman, Google
- Arun Ranganathan, AOL
- John Robinson, AOL
- Doug Schepers, Vectoreal
- Michael Shenfield, Research In Motion
- Jonas Sicking, Mozilla Foundation
- Stéphane Sire, IntuiLab
- Maciej Stachowiak, Apple Computer
- Anne van Kesteren, Opera Software
Thanks to all those who have helped to improve this specification by sending
suggestions and corrections. (Please, keep bugging us with your
issues!)
Interesting. A W3C specification that documents a proprietary
Microsoft API which not only does not include a Microsoft employee as a
spec author but doesn't even reference any of the IXMLHttpRequest
documentation on MSDN.
I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere. ;)