- From: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:17:34 +0000
- To: Andrei Popescu <andreip@google.com>, Lars Erik Bolstad <lbolstad@opera.com>
- CC: "public-geolocation@w3.org" <public-geolocation@w3.org>
On Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:04 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Lars Erik Bolstad <lbolstad@opera.com> wrote: > > The W3C transition steps documentation says that a "In general, documents do > > not advance to Recommendation with normative references to W3C > > specifications that are not yet Recommendations." [1] > > > > We currently have normative references to HTML 5 ([BROWSINGCONTEXT], > > [DOCUMENTORIGIN], and [NAVIGATOR]), as well as to WebIDL. > > None of these specs are Recommendations and these references could therefore > > block our transition to PR. [snip] > > I don't know how or if we could get rid of the other references, though, nor > > if the "In general" qualification means that exceptions can be made. Matt, > > could you perhaps share some thoughts on that? > > > > I am not sure there's much we can do about that. Can we get an > exception from W3C for this case? :) The Web Performance working group is running into the same issue: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-perf/2011Feb/0036.html Other specs have been blocked at PR and unable to progress to Rec because of this constraint. Adrian.
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