RE: warnings on outdated specs/docs

+Ted. This seems like an issue for the Systems Team to tweak their publication process to update specs that are obsoleted by a new publication, more than a process question. I can't imagine anyone objecting to the principle that outdated specs should be flagged as such, but I can imagine that the cost could be non-trivial.  Any additional information the Systems Team would need to flag those outdated docs might have to be defined in Pubrules, but I think this is an implementation detail as far as the Process Document is concerned.

-----Original Message-----
From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina@rednote.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 12:27 PM
To: David Singer
Cc: Steve Faulkner; Birkir Gunnarsson; public-w3process@w3.org; W3C WAI Protocols & Formats
Subject: Re: warnings on outdated specs/docs

David Singer writes:
> 
> > On Mar 25, 2015, at 8:09 , Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 25 March 2015 at 14:59, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
> > While we should be
> > able to expect that readers would note publication dates and 
> > automatically suspect a document long unupdated
> > 
> > Major issue here is that multi-page documents only have publication dates on front pages, for example:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/conformance.html#confor

> > mance-reqs has no pub date
> > 
> > Also publication date alone does not provide a clear indication of a 
> > document being superseded or outdated, take for example 
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/

> 
> Right, this is like the IETF, where you have to notice ‘obsoleted by’ in the little header at the top of the RFC.
> 
> The IETF is scared of newer technologies than teletypes :-), we’re not. We can do better, as you say (e.g. floating header/footer).
> 
I understand how header/footer can help multi-page, but how does it help for WCAG 1.0? Or for HTML 4.01? Etc.

Janina

> David Singer
> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
> 

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