Re: ACTION-782: Polyglot discussion at upcoming TAG F2F

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>wrote:

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> On 3/10/2013 4:39 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote:
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>> My goal was just to get a face-to-face discussion about this so that
>> passionate supporters of using TAG time for this could make their case. I
>> believe that several of the new members do not see this as a good use of
>> TAG's limited time, but wanted to give longer-standing members an
>> opportunity to disabuse us of that.
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> I'm fine with the spirit of this, though am wondering if the details are
> backward. The TAG has made a request to the HTML working group that the
> polyglot document move forward. If we spend no time on it, the TAG's
> position on that stands. My impression was that it was some or perhaps all
> of our "new members" who felt it might be worth time to reconsider the
> TAG's position, and I'm willing to schedule some time if so. What am I
> missing? Thank you.


I believe that Alex and I both expressed our suspicion that this particular
discussion served as a reasonable proxy for other seeming disagreements,
and we wanted to use a concrete point of controversy in order to raise the
discussion. I believe that other members (maybe Jeni) agreed that it could
be a useful way to have a much-needed discussion.


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> Noah
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