- From: Albert Lunde <Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 08:40:31 -0600 (CST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> > The lowest common denominator is now HTML 2.0, which defines in > > toe-curling detail the consensus of the state of HTML in around August 94. > > If you want to know what is the lowest common denominator, look there. > > May I ask when this passed from being a proposed spec to a fully fledged one? RFC 1866 is dated Nov 95. That's when HTML 2.0 went from being an Internet Draft to a standards-track RFC. I think the official status is now "proposed standard". And in practical terms, very little is likely to change in the 2.0 spec but corrections of typos and minor editoral errors. (From some points of view, not much had changed in the 6-9 months before that, though some important SGML issues were addressed.) Internet-drafts are just working papers, and expire in six months. They don't have any fixed meaning as standards, though one can argue that they mean something in tracing the history and intentions of a IETF working group. (And CERN/w3.org has a history outside the IETF process.)
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