- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:20:08 +1100
- To: public-appformats@w3.org
Arthur Barstow: > I asked Ian Jacobs to clarify the W3C's Referencing Policy in the > context of this thread (i.e. "referring to unstable drafts") and > this is what he reported: > > [[ > Here is the text [from the W3C Manual of Style]: > > <http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/#normative> > > "Normative references should be to stable and mature resources (e.g., > only Recommendations)." > > Thus, it is not forbidden. Especially when a document is a draft, it > seems unproblematic. The Manual of Style also says: > > 'If a reference is a W3C Recommendation track technical report that > has not reached Recommendation, state in the References section > that > it is "work in progress."' > > Once the document becomes a Proposed Recommendation, it is ill-advised > to refer to an instable document, as the group is likely to have to wait > until the unstable reference becomes a Proposed Recommendation before it > can continue to advance. > ]] That seems reasonable to me, given that section 8.2.2 has normative(?) text referring to DocumentWindow. -- Cameron McCormack, http://mcc.id.au/ xmpp:heycam@jabber.org ▪ ICQ 26955922 ▪ MSN cam@mcc.id.au
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