Re: [w3c/charter-html] Indicate relationship with the WHATWG (#112)

Whether that "effort to avoid differences" is successful or not should be view in the light of what the goal of maintaining the specification separately is. Differences that are a consequence of that goal are likely justified, while those that are not are issues.

My issue from the start has been and still is that I don't know what that goal is. I am not being facetious here, nor do I believe that there's no goal. However, I strongly suspect that one of the reasons we have not written it down is that different people have different rationales for this, and these various goals are mutually incompatible.

I am sure that the differences that were introduced are justified based on what the people who made them understand the goal to be. However, the continued inability to write that goal down make be believe that it is not a consensus based goal.

This is also why I have refrained from commenting on Calls for Consensus about resolving issues or publications. Not knowing what the mandate of the WG is, I have no basis to judge whether it's actions are appropriate or not. Theoretically, I suppose I could object to everything until the purpose is clarified, but I doubt this would be seen as a constructive approach, and ain't nobody got time for that.

The problem is that if a large part of the group's membership has a similar attitude, we'll have consensus by exhaustion rather than consensus by agreement.

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