Normative reference to WG NOTE

Nigel,

to answer the issue, should we use a normative reference to IANA 
registration document or to our WG NOTE "TTML Media Type Definition and 
Profile Registry" ?

Here are some details:

There is nothing about normative reference  in the W3C process.
But the "Organize a Technical Report Transition"  [1] says:
[... "Does this specification have any normative references to W3C 
specifications that are not yet Candidate Recommendations? Note: In 
general, documents do not advance to Recommendation with normative 
references to W3C specifications that are not yet Recommendations. See 
Normative References Guidelines" [2].
... "This document explains considerations the Director takes into 
account when evaluating normative references from W3C documents at 
transitions on the W3C Recommendation track. These considerations may be 
used by the Working Group while evaluating the risk associated with 
specific design choices during the group’s deliberations. The Director 
may refer to this document when a transition request is being decided.
At a high level, when a W3C specification has normative references to 
other documents the Director considers 3 factors: stability, schedule 
and licensing. Any of the factors described in this document are fodder 
for Director consideration. No single factor is decisive" ...]


The IANA registration document points to our WG NOTE "TTML Media Type 
Definition and Profile Registry". Therefore it seems odd not to be able 
to directly reference our WG NOTE

Therefore, after discussing this issue with PlH,  we should be able to 
use the normative reference to our WG NOTE and make our case to the 
director during transition.


  [1] 
https://services.w3.org/xslt?xmlfile=https://www.w3.org/2005/08/01-transitions2015.html&xslfile=https://www.w3.org/2005/08/transitions2015.xsl&docstatus=cr-tr


  [2] https://www.w3.org/2013/09/normative-references

Received on Thursday, 3 November 2016 17:22:00 UTC