- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:51:21 +0000
- To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
David Orchard wrote: > > Well, what I meant was that I don't know what down to earth means in > this context, namely for writing a spec. Down to earth applied to a > policy language specification is absurd. We need a language that is > unambigous and clear to get to interoperable implementations. > FWIW I found Ian's use of English prose in the HTML 5 parsing spec to be clear and helpful in producing an implementation. There are now multiple implementations of that spec which are believed to have good interoperability (they all pass a common test suite of moderate size). I have not reviewed the relevant section of the Access Control spec in enough detail to know whether it is currently as clear as HTML 5, but I see no reason /in principle/ why it could not be made clear enough to produce multiple interoperable implementations.
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