- From: Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:33:07 +0000
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- CC: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
I have responded to this item. See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011Feb/0064.html /paulc Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada 17 Eleanor Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A3 Tel: (425) 705-9596 Fax: (425) 936-7329 -----Original Message----- From: public-html-a11y-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-a11y-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Laura Carlson Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:31 PM To: HTML Accessibility Task Force Cc: Janina Sajka; Judy Brewer Subject: Fwd: new information & the re-opening of issues in the HTML WG For your information: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011Feb/0063.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:27:00 -0800 Subject: new information & the re-opening of issues in the HTML WG To: Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> Cc: www-archive@w3.org Hi, What criteria will be used to determine the "newness" of information when considering reopening issues in the HTML WG? Allowing the elaboration of information that, in truncated form, was available to the working group at the time the original decision was made doesn't strike me as a high enough bar. In many cases, when the working group's escalation and decision process has been fully exercised and a decision rendered, the issue in question was contentious and divisive. If it isn't clear to the working group that substantive new information is available *that would have caused some participants to see things differently when the issue was first decided*, I think the presumption should be that such issues don't get reopened. I'd like to see something like Sam's "three or more independent and established participants" rule for reopening issues due to new information. If we can't find three or more independent and established participants who can say "I would have gone the other way on this issue, had I known then what I know now," we shouldn't reopen the issue. Thanks for your consideration, Ted -- Edward O'Connor eoconnor@apple.com -- Laura L. Carlson
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