Re: [w3c/charter-html] Charter must state a reason when duplicating work done elsewhere (#139)

On 5/16/2017 8:48 PM, Florian Rivoal wrote:
>
>     So the result of your policy could be that the WHATWG could start
>     working on everything W3C is working on, and we would be bound by
>     this policy to stop everything.
>
> No, because my proposed policy is not to stop working on anything they 
> also work on, but rather to *either* stop working on it *or* state why 
> we continue. "nobody reads their fork" would be a good reason to 
> continue when they fork our work. Conversely, absent other reasons, 
> "nobody reads our fork" could be a good reason for stopping.
>
> As @michaelchampion <https://github.com/michaelchampion> and 
> @stevefaulkner <https://github.com/stevefaulkner> stated, there can be 
> good reasons to continue working on a document even if the other is 
> has more developer mind-share. But as @tantek 
> <https://github.com/tantek> suggests, the accessibility needs may be 
> better served by a separate document, and the IPR needs may be better 
> served by less divergence. Or not. But at least, stating what the 
> goals are less us discuss what the best way to achieve them is.
>

Yes, there are always reasons.  So that gets back to my original 
question to you: "how high level an explanation do you want?".  I 
provided an explanation in my first response which pretty much explains 
why we work on our specs.  I believe that WHATWG has their reasons as well.

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