Re: EME test status

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:31 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:

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> > On Oct 4, 2016, at 11:24 , Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:
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> > Cory,
> >
> > Per Coralie's message to the AC this-morning, the Charter was extended
> to 30 November 2016.
> >
> > It's actually not clear to me whether work on web-platform-tests falls
> under the HTML Media Extensions charter or some other auspice.
>
> Yes, also, we can neither encourage nor discourage technical work and
> discussion on mailing lists, whether the charter is formally active or not.
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> In active charters might lead to the team deciding not to spend time with
> a WG that doesn’t formally exist, for example; groups out of charter would
> not normally be given fact-to-face time at TPAC; and so on.  It’s W3C
> resources and actions that may be curtailed; not the activities of members.
>

​Except that I would imagine that contributions to a specification made
when a group was out-of-charter might have a different status from an IP
point of view. (At least, I would assume that until someone authoritative
on that topic told me otherwise).

...Mark​



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> >
> > ...Mark
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> >
> > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Cory Doctorow <cory@eff.org> wrote:
> > How is it that this group is continuing its work without a charter?
> >
> > Cory
> >
> > On 10/04/2016 11:09 AM, Mark Watson wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I believe there are some regressions in the multi-key tests. I am
> > > working on these.
> > >
> > > ...Mark
> >
> >
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> David Singer
> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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