I have been on XML-DEV mailing list for a long time.  Since then, XML 1.0, SAX, DOM, XML Namespaces (urgh), XSLT, XSL-FO, XML Schema, RELAX-NG, SVG, and other specs have been discussed in-depth on the list and released by W3C.  It is interesting to note that OASIS specs were not discussed as throughly as W3C specs on XML-DEV, yet OASIS took over as host XML-DEV from Peter Murray-Rust and Henry Rzepa sometime in 1999.  Peter and Henry has since noted that OASIS has not been appropriately supportive of the list. 

There has been persistent technical problems, yet OASIS seemed to be interested only in patching up immediate problems and no more.  Latest uproar started with Tim Bray (XML 1.0 Chair) and Lauren Wood (DOM Chair) getting kicked off the list mysteriously.  Karl Best, an OASIS VP, replied saying that XML-DEV is low-priority for OASIS and that XML-DEV members are expecting too much from OASIS.  So, OASIS is not an oasis for XML-DEV.  I am looking forward to the next leg of XML-DEV's journey.  That is if rest of XML-DEV is as unhappy with OASIS as I am.

I believe XML-DEV needs to grow up into a standard organization like W3C and OASIS.  Most of the people who work on W3C and OASIS specs are XML-DEV members anyway.  Specs published by XML-DEV will have the distinction of being XML Community-Approved, unlike W3C and OASIS specs which are Member Companies-Approved.  We can start with SAX, RELAX-NG, and Common-XML specs.