- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:01:20 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
On Mar 3, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 03.03.2010 23:31, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> Team, >> >> Please advise. >> >> On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >>> I assume that W3C has a policy of that all W3C recommendations has >>> to >>> be freely available. Thus I don't think having normative >>> dependencies >>> on non-free specifications could be allowed. >> >> Would it be against W3C policy to have a normative dependency on a >> specification that is not freely available? >> ... > > How is that material different from citing ISO-8601 (which HTML5 > does)? Or citing other specs that have normative reference to specs > that aren't "freely" available, such as IETF STD 68? I don't know. Jonas said he thought there was a W3C policy. I would like it to be clear to everyone whether there is or not, as that seems relevant information to the decision. I do not personally know whether there is such a policy. Regards, Maciej
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