Jon Bosak

Jon Bosak (c. 1945) is an American computer scientist. He led the development of XML standards at the W3C.

Tim Bray, one of the editors of the XML specification, wrote about the role Bosaks the following:. "Without the efforts of Jon Bosaks XML would most likely not see the light of the world during his work on the ( excellent ) online documentation for Novell, he began the power and flexibility of SGML learn to appreciate and he had acquired the conviction that HTML was not the appropriate platform for the upcoming web infrastructure. Bosaks responsibility of the XML process is characterized by a combination of deft political maneuvering and the firm insistence on the principle of doing things on the basis of principles and not according to expediency. "

After he resigned his post as chairman of the W3C XML Coordination Group on 10 February 2000, he was awarded in recognition of his achievements in the XML namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace its own identifier, "xml: Father ":