RE: Chair review of the issue-195 form-http-req change proposals

Cameron:

>* Enhance: http://www.w3.org/wiki/User:Cjones/ISSUE-195
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> The Enhance proposal does not include rationale for each of the separate changes proposed.
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> Not addressing this comment will negatively affect the chances of the Enhance proposal being adopted.
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> At the present time, the Enhance proposal reads more like a list of items to be worked rather than as a specific set of edit instructions, as such this needs to be corrected before we allow this issue to proceed to survey.

If your  Enhance change proposal is not changed to reflect the Chairs review (see below) by June 27 then we will consider the Enhance proposal to be withdrawn.

/paulc
HTML WG co-chair

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ruby [mailto:rubys@intertwingly.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:04 AM
To: public-html@w3.org
Cc: Cameron Heavon-Jones; Edward O'Connor (ted@oconnor.cx)
Subject: Chair review of the issue-195 form-http-req change proposals

http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-195

'Enhance http request generation from forms'

Change Proposals:

* Enhance: http://www.w3.org/wiki/User:Cjones/ISSUE-195
* Defer:   http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/User:Eoconnor/ISSUE-195

The Defer proposal has complete details; its rationale actually serves as the basis for much of this review.

Lack of provided use cases won't prevent the issue from going to survey, but will likely negatively affect the chances of the Enhance proposal being selected.  As such, the Enhance proposal would benefit by addressing this item.

Similarly, lack of UA implementor interest won't prevent the issue from going to survey.  It may not even prevent it from being selected.  But it could very well result in the feature being proposed being pulled later in the cycle as HTML5 proceeds to Recommendation status. 
Addressing this early will prevent needless work.

The Enhance proposal does not include rationale for each of the separate changes proposed. Some rationale is provided addressing "_logout_" and "async", but not most of the other proposed changes. Even the "_logout_" 
and "async" rationale do not contain specific supporting evidence.

Examples of unsupported statements:

- The second half of "The ability to control the HTTP authentication cache is currently unavailable in browsers through any means and represents an unacceptable security hole in the adoption of HTTP authentication."

- "Combined with the ability for form requests to target different browsing contexts this leads to innovation in the development of rich 'webapp' style HTML documents and additional enablement of frames for such purposes. "

Not addressing this comment will negatively affect the chances of the Enhance proposal being adopted.

The complexity of change issue is something that needs to be resolved prior to survey.  The Enhance proposal needs to identify a set of edit instructions, specific enough that they can be applied without ambiguity, and the Defer proposal needs to identify specific problems that would need to be addressed.

At the present time, the Enhance proposal reads more like a list of items to be worked rather than as a specific set of edit instructions, as such this needs to be corrected before we allow this issue to proceed to survey.

Until this is corrected, no changes to the Defer proposal are required.

- Sam Ruby

Received on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:18:33 UTC