Re: Normative references to non-recommendation specs

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Lars Erik Bolstad <lbolstad@opera.com> wrote:
> The W3C transition steps documentation says that a "In general, documents do
> not advance to Recommendation with normative references to W3C
> specifications that are not yet Recommendations." [1]
>
> We currently have normative references to HTML 5 ([BROWSINGCONTEXT],
> [DOCUMENTORIGIN], and [NAVIGATOR]), as well as to WebIDL.
> None of these specs are Recommendations and these references could therefore
> block our transition to PR.
>
> We could replace the [DOCUMENTORIGIN] with a reference to RFC 2396 if we
> actually go ahead and change the wording in section 4.1, as previously
> discussed.
>

Done:

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/geo/api/spec-source.html.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92&f=h

> I don't know how or if we could get rid of the other references, though, nor
> if the "In general" qualification means that exceptions can be made. Matt,
> could you perhaps share some thoughts on that?
>

I am not sure there's much we can do about that. Can we get an
exception from W3C for this case? :)

Thanks,
Andrei

Received on Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:04:18 UTC