- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: 20 Mar 2002 15:45:03 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 14:22, Dan Connolly wrote: > e.g. please keep in mind that getting the last > word in an email thread is not the point; the > last word is in the document. > ... > A rule of thumb I like: > > If a thread goes back and forth three times without > anybody suggesting textual changes to the document, > something's wrong. That's not a bad guideline, but insisting on that approach makes it nearly impossible to question whether the document's intent is a good idea in the first place. I hear painful echoes of statements like "The XML Schema Working Group will only accept comments which address particular details of the XML Schema drafts, not comment which question the overall approach." At least RFC 3205 is available as counterpoint to the discussion here, informing the discussion of the wide-open definition of "the World Wide Web" and point 2 of: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/intro -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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