- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:03:13 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Ian Hickson<ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Shelley Powers wrote: >> > >> > You already have editing rights. Just start writing. You don't have to >> > ask anyone's permission. There is plenty of precedent for this; when a >> > spec of sufficient quality comes up that replaces a section of the >> > HTML5 spec, I remove the text in HTML5 and instead point (if >> > appropriate) to the new text. This has happened with XMLHttpRequest, >> > the Selectors API, Window (which was later remerged in), the URL >> > parsing and resolving sections, the Content Sniffing section, and for >> > a number of other documents that I still edit (Web Socket API, Web >> > Socket Protocol, Web Storage, Server-sent Events, and Web Workers). >> >> Still setting all the rules, eh, Ian? > > No, the above is in fact what our chair said: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009May/0169.html > > You already have editing rights. Our chair has encouraged you to start > writing. Is there anyone else whose permission you would like? > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > Unlike you and Sam, I'm not paid to waste my time writing material that I know will be rejected. While you're a gatekeeper I won't play the gam. I will spend my time writing, but it will be in the nature of formal objections, which cannot be ignored. Shelley
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