My review of the XML Binary Characterizations Working Group

now available at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2005Apr/0059.html. Interesting and useful work in the WG, but there's a ways to go before deciding to pick one binary format for the W3C. This takes into account knowledge that bea, msft, ibm, expway, agiledelta, adobe, oracle, etc. have binary formats in production.