Re: review of GRDDL by (X)HTML working group(s)?

Dan Connolly wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 10:51 -0400, Harry Halpin wrote:
>   
>> While I understand Ivan's concerns, I think there is a large point and 
>> then two ramifications:
>>
>>   We *should not*  formally ask for reviews,
>>     
>
> Really? It's pretty clear to me that we should; indeed, that we did
> when we went to last call and CR.
>
>   

My reasoning for formally asking for review would be that we have only
so far formally asked for review from groups that mentioned such in our
charter.
>>  but we should probably at 
>> least  bring GRDDL to their attention. This should be done by e-mailing 
>> the chairs and telling them to forward the announcement that we are going to 
>> PR in July, and that while we are not formally requesting comments, now is 
>> the time to put in any last minute comments.
>>     
>
> I don't understand why you say "not formally requesting comments."
>
> If you're suggesting that a PR request that doesn't show review
> by these WGs is complete, I'm not convinced.
>   
Well, since you're the staff contact DanC, and if the reviews make the
spec better, then I will send in the review request later tonight. I'm
crossing-fingers though.
>>   1) A review by (X)HTML should be uncontroversial. Therefore, I will 
>> e-mail their chair today to "bring it to his attention".
>>
>>   2) A review by HTML WG could be controversial. The main point of bringing 
>> GRDDL to their attention would be ask them to politely *not* remove 
>> profile, since other standards (i.e. GRDDL) use it. Therefore, I suggest 
>> that we carefully phrase an e-mail to the chair of the HTML WG saying to 
>> forward a message from the GRDDL Working Group that is about to go to PR 
>> and that uses "profile" attribute. Therefore, in any future arguments the 
>> HTML WG has, there will be some ammunition for those who want to keep the 
>> "profile" attribute in HTML.
>>     
>
> That seems like a reasonable thing to do; I'm not sure whether it's
> enough, though.
>
>   


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		-harry

Harry Halpin,  University of Edinburgh 
http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin 6B522426

Received on Sunday, 24 June 2007 01:23:41 UTC