- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:20:11 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Shelley Powers wrote: > > 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 game. I'm not gatekeeper. I'm just another editor. The chairs are the ones with the authority to declare consensus, which decides what gets published. I certainly have no power to reject another draft. (The browser vendors are the ultimate gatekeepers, of course, in that they get to decide what actually gets implemented. It's our role as editors to make sure we do what they want, otherwise our documents are nothing but rather dry science fiction.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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