Response to Jonas Sicking's Change Proposal: Deprecate Longdesc

Colleagues,

On June 25th Jonas Sicking put forth a change Proposal related to Issue 30
- Longdesc (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/30). 

A number of assertions and factual inaccuracies were brought forward in
this proposal, and I was tasked with addressing and responding to those
issues. It has been a long and busy summer, and I apologize (especially to
Jonas) for the delay in getting this completed. However, I have completed
the response and respectfully bring it to the attention of this Working
Group for consideration.

The Response can be found at:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/A11yTF/longdescresponse 

Thank you.

JF