creating issues for non-published documents?

I noticed a couple of bugs recently that were filed against Steve
Faulkner's alt techniques document, such as [1]. Now, they're
resulting in issues.

Question: how can we raise something as an issue when the bug is filed
against a document that's not even published by this group, yet?

This seems really screwy. For instance, what would the issue block?
Not the HTML5 spec, would it?

Shelley

[1] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9081