Re: [media] proposed a11y TF letter on issue-152

On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>> 
>> The undersigned members of the media subgroup of the accessibility task 
>> force have agreed to withdraw proposals 1-3 in favor of proposal 4.
>> 
>> However, we request the following additions to be made to the proposal:
> 
> I suggest we go one step further, and have me withdraw the 4th proposal as 
> well. This would allow the issue to close without prejudice. We could then 
> just use the normal process to update the spec to add the MediaController 
> feature, which I would be happy to do (indeed it's already in the spec 
> source, just currently clipped out of the W3C copy). The advantage of this 
> is that it doesn't leave any confusion as to whether we can make changes 
> to the spec on issues that were the subject of a formal Decision.
> 
> Would anyone object to that?

Another benefit of this approach would be that the issue could be reopened with a fresh Change Proposal if we fail to achieve consensus on the remaining smaller points. (Though at that point, it would become a Last Call issue).

Regards,
Maciej