On Nov 19, 2008, at 09:40, Julian Reschke wrote: > What I find unreasonable is to require somebody to invest a huge > amount of time when the result likely would be "nice try, but now go > away". > > So an attempt to do a split should have the backing of the WG before > a significant amount of time is spent. On the other hand, suggesting the WG take an editor without a proven track record risks the the WG investing a huge amount of time in an exercise that fails. I think it's more important to protect the spec development as a whole against waste than it is to protect aspiring individuals against waste, even though that's not nice from the point of view of the individuals. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/Received on Wednesday, 19 November 2008 09:20:12 GMT
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