[Bug 12776] Define process for deciding whether a draft is REC-track or Note-track

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12776

--- Comment #7 from Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> 2011-06-01 12:20:48 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6 from Paul)
> I do NOT believe the Normativity of a specification is necesarily the test of
> whether it should be on the Recommendation track or not.  The real test for me
> is if the owning WG plans to maintain the specification or not.

I agree with Paul here. While I know some members of the group seem to believe
the determination for whether a document is Rec-track should be made based on
whether it contains an normative requirements, that is at odds with the W3C
Process doc, because the Process document very clearly allows for non-normative
Recommendations.

It seems like the members proposing that certain HTML WG drafts be changed to
Working Group Notes instead of being Rec-track are proposing that because they
know that will have the effect of making it necessary of the editors of those
drafts to remove any normative requirements from them.

So I would suggest that instead of adding anything to the HTML WG
decision-policy doc to "Define process for deciding whether a draft is
REC-track or Note-track", what should instead be added is "Define process for
deciding whether a draft should contain any normative requirements".

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Received on Wednesday, 1 June 2011 12:20:52 UTC