Congratulations to Oracle’s Ashok Malhotra for his election to serve on the W3C TAG. Coincidentally, I met Ashok face to face for the first time today. This is good news for the Semantic Web, good news for W3C, good news for Oracle and, I hope, good news for Ashok too. If the name sounds familiar it may be because of his key role in the XML schema datatypes specification, which is arguably the most useful thing that came out of XSD.