Re: Release "HTML Design Principles" as a W3C Working Draft

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 14:13 +0000, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote:
> According to my analysis, there were 34 members of
> the WG who did not agree with the proposed publication.
> 
> May I respectfully ask on what basis you (Dan C) have
> therefore decided that 51 votes in favour represents
> the consensus that is required before publication may
> proceed ?

I am not claiming there is consensus; there is clearly
a formal objection. While consensus is always a goal,
it is not required for publication:

 "Consensus is not a prerequisite for approval to publish"
 -- 7.4.1 First Public Working Draft
 http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#first-wd

I am saying that the chairs have reviewed the responses
to the proposal and the decision of the Working Group
is to proceed with publication.


-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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