RE: Call for Consensus: Publish HTML Image Descriptions as Last Call

To facilitate the WG level CfC's I recommend that you produce a draft LC WD at a stable URL and with the Status section updated for the LC period.

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From: Charles McCathie Nevile
Sent: 25/06/2013 12:33 PM
To: Paul Cotton; Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> (janina@rednote.net)
Cc: public-html-a11y@w3.org
Subject: Re: Call for Consensus: Publish HTML Image Descriptions as Last Call

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 22:54:52 +0400, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
(janina@rednote.net) <janina@rednote.net> wrote:

> Hi, Paul:
>
> As I read it, the W3C Patent Policy requires at least 60-days of Last
> Call:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq.html#refdraftislc

In principle it is possible to publish a Recommendation in that time, if
everyone is very very fast. t won't happen in our case because of the lags
built in by needing consensus from multiple groups. And in general it is
unusual - it would require an extremely high degree of certainty about the
IPR status.

On the other hand I don't think we need to wait 60 days for last call
comments. The specification is very short, and has had a massive amount of
discussion already over the last 7 years - I will be surprised if there
are any surprises at all waiting to be revealed.

I intend to ask the TF in this week's meeting for a Recommendation, but I
would suggest 6 weeks - far longer than necessary, but since we anticipate
publishing over July/August, and throughout those two months there are
many people in Europe on extended breaks, a reasonable balance.

Cheers

Chaals

> I don't believe we anticipate a longer period.
>
> Janina
>
>
> Paul Cotton writes:
>> > THe HTML Accessibility Task Force requests that the HTML and PF
>> Working Groups jointly publish a Last Call Working Draft of the HTML
>> Image Description extension, based on the 24 June editor's draft
>>
>> How long a Last Call period does the TF recommend?
>>
>> /paulc
>>
>> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Charles McCathie Nevile [mailto:chaals@yandex-team.ru]
>> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 1:17 PM
>> To: public-html-a11y@w3.org
>> Subject: Call for Consensus: Publish HTML Image Descriptions as Last
>> Call
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is a call for consensus on the proposal:
>>
>> THe HTML Accessibility Task Force requests that the HTML and PF Working
>> Groups jointly publish a Last Call Working Draft of the HTML Image
>> Description extension, based on the 24 June editor's draft at
>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/e2129bb908aa/longdesc1/longdesc.html
>>
>> Silence will be taken as assent, but a positive response is preferred.
>> Please respond to public-html-a11y@w3.org before the call closes at
>> midnight on Monday 1 July (Hawaii Time zone).
>>
>> Changes since the Second Public Working Draft of June 6 are editorial
>> in nature. The most significant ones are identified at
>> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/e2129bb908aa/longdesc1/longdesc.html#changes
>>
>> There is one issue identified in the draft, which is a request for a
>> better reference for checking accessibility of content. We have already
>> agreed that if we don't find a more appropriate reference we will
>> simply close the bug and leave it as is.
>>
>> In addition, in a late comment on the last draft[1] Peter Gruzca
>> foreshadowed a potential issue of changing the requirement for making
>> longdesc discoverable from "should" to "must". In my reply[2], I have
>> requested that if he wishes to formally propose the issue he does so as
>> a comment on the Last Call (assuming we reach consensus and the Last
>> Call is published).
>>
>> [1]
>> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Jun/0064.html>
>> [2]
>> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Jun/0071.html>
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Chaals
>>
>> --
>> Charles McCathie Nevile - Consultant (web standards) CTO Office, Yandex
>>        chaals@yandex-team.ru         Find more at http://yandex.com
>


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       chaals@yandex-team.ru         Find more at http://yandex.com