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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9178 Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |nrm@arcanedomain.com --- Comment #5 from Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com> 2010-09-30 21:16:59 UTC --- Hixie writes: > if there is a specific issue single that is a reopening > of the specific issue raised in this bug, please state > for the record what the issue is The part of the original issue that I felt was not adequately addressed is (quoting from 0029 email): It would be desirable to clarify the applicability of the term "conforming document" in cases where "applicable specifications" had been used to augment or change the base HTML5 specification. I believe that is ultimately a very important and deep concern that remains unaddressed. Given the current ambiguity, someone could write a specification that very radically changes the HTML5 base, perhaps even maliciously, and claim "oh, mine is an 'applicable specification', so what you get when you write to my new spec is a 'conforming HTML5 document'". Wouldn't it be better to require that such documents be referred to as "conforming to HTML5 as modified by my-malicious-spec-X" (or in the more likely example "conforming to HTML5 as modified by my-nonmalicious-spec-that-makes-significant-and-perhaps-otherwise-incompatible-changes"? > and reassign the bug to me Above my pay grade. > If there are new issues, please > file new bugs. Up to you whether this remaining bit is best tracked as new bug. I'll open one if that's easier for you. I've acknowledged that the main concern, I.e. to better define the term conforming documents, has been addressed (modulo the editorial suggestion that it be hyperlinked from references). I am satisfied with the resolution to that, and I thank you! > No dismissal of this issue is intended here. Understood, and much appreciated. Again, thank you very much. Noah -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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