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Re: [WIDGETS] Zip Support (request for comments)

From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:28:06 -0400
Message-Id: <E993C9CE-0703-4BC1-A361-659CF3A86661@nokia.com>
Cc: "Jon Ferraiolo" <jferrai@us.ibm.com>, "public-appformats@w3.org" <public-appformats@w3.org>
To: ext Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>

Marcos,

On Oct 7, 2007, at 2:02 AM, ext Marcos Caceres wrote:

> What you are proposing is a good idea, I'll remove the references  
> to OCF and continue to repurpose the technical details. However,  
> creating an independent Zip-based spec might be beyond the scope of  
> WAF (although it would be nice if one day PKWARE contributed their  
> spec to the W3C)... in any case, you will have to ask our working  
> group chair if defining a distinct packaging spec can be part of  
> the WAF charter (will someone at IBM be willing to edit it?;-)).

I don't forsee any W3C process-related issues with the Widgets work  
resulting in more than one spec, assuming there is consensus to do so  
and an agreeable Editor.

Regards, AB
Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:31:02 GMT

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