Re: Publishing the HTML 5 draft

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 04:31 +0200, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:05:01 +0200, Philip Taylor (Webmaster)  
> <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > My recollection (which may, after all this time, be flawed)
> 
> I think your recollection is accurate.
>
> > is that the group agreed to publish the Design Principles
> > document first.

It was an informal poll rather than a binding decision,
so I wouldn't use the word "agreed", but that's
a quibble...

>   I do not believe that we have yet
> > agreed these, let alone published them, so is it not
> > premature to thing of publishing another document
> > (the HTML 5 Draft) without the Design Principles
> > document as a fundamental pre-requisite ?
> 
> I don't think so, for the following reasons:
> 
> 1. The decision to publish design principles was as I recall an attempt to  
> get something published in time to make our heartbeat requirment (or  
> nearly make it). It turns out that the premise seems flawed, so I suggest  
> we revisit the decision.

I agree; I have re-opened the survey.

  http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/wd7/
  http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/wd7/results

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