>Sun wants Java to be a standard only if they maintain complete control of the future of the languge. They submitted Java to one standards group only to back out when they discovered that the standards committee would make the decisions on new Java features not Sun.

That was the ISO. Here is a sample news bit:

http://www.convergence.org/news/misc.html

30 Apr 1999 Sun blames MS as Java ISO plans die

Sun's plans to submit its Java language for standardization via the International Standards Organization are dead, according to Alan Baratz, president of Sun's Java Software division. Baratz said ISO recently changed the rules that would govern Java if it were to be made an ISO standard, he believes as a result of lobbying by "the Wintel alliance" and Microsoft in particular.


Peter