- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:47:24 -0700
- To: Murray Maloney <murray@muzmo.com>
- Cc: David Dailey <david.dailey@sru.edu>, karl@w3.org, www-archive@w3.org, connolly@w3.org, Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com
On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Murray Maloney wrote: > At 02:22 PM 4/20/2007 -0400, David Dailey wrote: > > >> This made me wonder something: >> >> Maciej has written http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/ >> 2007Apr/0911.html concerning the proposed principles that >> >> >You can think of them as self-imposed amendments to the charter, so >> >that we don't have to pick through the often vague language of the >> >charter for justification. Since they are self-imposed, they are >> also >> >less difficult to add or remove in response to feedback. All it >> takes >> >is a decision of the group, not the full re-chartering process which >> >is slow and disruptive. >> >> Has a W3C group ever modified its own charter in this way? If so >> was it done by majority rule? > > I am not sure Maciej was being literal or not, but I did not > interpret his suggestion > as being an actual amendment to the charter as much as a virtual > amendment. > The XML Schema WG adopted a set of design principles as did the XML > WG. I was not being literal. I agree that we do not want to open a re- chartering rathole and should follow the precedent of other groups. Regards, Maciej
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