Re: Advancing the GCT Proposal

Dennis, Owen,

Sorry for delay in responding to this - I also am not sure why this has not progressed. It seems that the lack of a standard, i.e. the fact that each (XML) editing application has its own solution, is not causing great pain (for our own product, we simply generate whatever format is needed!). W3C has a focus on web/HTML5 and again there is not a real demand in that area for change tracking, or even showing change, at the moment. There is a trend to use HTML as the ‘source’ for documents rather than XML and if that continues there could be a future demand.

Robin
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> On 13 May 2017, at 16:20, Owen Ambur <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net> wrote:
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> Dennis, I have no reason to doubt your assessment but it would be nice to have a post mortem on the cause of death.
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> I don't believe it was because the requirement no longer exists but rather for lack of will to address it in an open, standardized manner.
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> Just because something should be done doesn't necessarily mean it will be done, even if there is a law directing as much:  https://gcn.com/articles/2017/05/10/machine-readable-data.aspx 
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> Owen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamilton@acm.org] 
> Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 5:34 PM
> To: public-change@w3.org
> Cc: 'Robin LaFontaine' <robin.lafontaine@deltaxml.com>; 'Chris Fox' <chris@chriscfox.com>; 'Alejandro Revuelta' <alejandro.revuelta@ximdex.com>; 'Owen Ambur' <Owen.Ambur@verizon.net>
> Subject: RE: Advancing the GCT Proposal
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> It seems clear to me, at this point, that CT Markup is comatose and resuscitation is implausible.
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> I'm not clear what the procedure is for having someone declare time-of-death.  Regardless, I shall depart now and grieve privately.
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> It was an interesting idea whose time seems to have passed.
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> Respectfully,
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> - Dennis
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