RE: Obsolescence notices on old specifications, again

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Adrian Bateman wrote:
>
> I will wait to see the proposed text but in the meantime point out that 
> Microsoft has regulatory obligations that require us to direct customers 
> to these specifications until such time as there is a completed 
> Recommendation that succeeds them. As a consequence we want to make sure 
> these customers recognise that these are the most up-to-date completed 
> specifications from W3C and are not confused by such a notice.

In that case we should definitely just publish what we have now in DOM4 as 
a REC. It's far more "complete" than the decade-old DOM2 specs are.

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