development of an education license or license option for Creative Commons

[David Palmer <davidpalmer AT westnet.com.au>]

Stephen Downes' vision is magical, it is how the net was originally
meant to function before greed raised its' ugly head. But as a
developer, I have to quail at the task.
To have everything, word processing, imaging, search capability, and
etc., compiled into the one comprehensive programme, would create a
collossus that would take about fifteen years to load, which somewhat
defeats the accessibility factor.

I think that the best way to handle this situation is to approach it
through an already established programme like Tim Berners-Lees' W3C
project so that everything is standardised. I'm sure he would
incorporate it into his programme. XHTML and CSS2 are the standards that
need to be applied here. Tagging for maximum cross browser accessibility
is a factor that he would already have established. That is the first
step I should take.

The second step would be legal, having all these resources registered
under the one roof (as we have here at CC), and any of the search
engines-Google or Alltheweb would have to take them on under an open
access licence, to make them freely available even if the search engine
were to be sold (as Google was possibly going to be to Microsoft a
little while ago). I'm sure Lawrence Lessig would be as keen to
facilitate something of this nature, as Tim would be to do so within his
field.
Regards,

David.