Re: Courtesy notification: call for consensus on HTML normative language reference issues

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 11:54 +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:32:21 +0100, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>  
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:36:21 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>  
> > wrote:
> >> On Dec 15, 2009, at 3:00 PM, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> [...] endorse the proposed disposition of HTML WG issue-59 in
> >>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Dec/0249.html  ,  
> >>> i.e.
> >>> the class=author view and the informative reference guide, provided the
> >>> relaxng is appended to the informative reference guide, which will be
> >>> published as a Working Draft and taken to Last Call [...]
> >>
> >> I don't think I can commit on behalf of the Working Group to publish  
> >> the document as Last Call, nor do I think the Working Group itself can  
> >> credibly pre-commit to that step. [...]
> >
> > Non-normative documents are published as WG Note, not as Last Call  
> > documents.

Those aren't exclusive; i.e. you can do a Last Call before a Note.

Precedent:

"This is the Last Call for the requirements Working Draft of the XML Key
Management Working Group (Activity Statement). This version represents
the consensus of the Working Group."
 -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xkms2-req-20020318

followed by http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-xkms2-req-20030505

> Apparently there is plenty of precedence for publishing them as W3C REC in  
> the end (e.g. RDF and OWL primers). Forgot about that. Not sure whether it  
> is worth it.


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