"industry standards"

• From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
• Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:16:07 +0200
• To: johnath@mozilla.com
• Cc: public-wsc-wg@w3.org
• Message-ID: <20070808171607.GH14409@raktajino.does-not-exist.org>

Johnathan, all,

in rewriting the "identity signal" part, I'll assume the agreement 
to drop the "MAY extend with industry standard stuff" also extended
to the "SHOULD rely on technologies accepted as industry standards
of indentification" clause.

The argument against this is the same as for the other text: This is
an open-ended normative reference, and it's actually more grave in a
SHOULD than in a MAY.

I'm therefore dropping the following text without replacement:

     <p>User agents SHOULD rely on technologies which are accepted
     as industry standards of identification when populating this
     indicator.</p>

Please speak up on the list if you disagree.

Thanks,
-- 
Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

Received on Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:16:10 UTC