html5/rdfa Overview.html,1.15,1.16

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	Overview.html 
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Integrating changes from Larry Masinter into latest HTML+RDFa WD spec.


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--- Overview.html	20 Jan 2010 05:10:13 -0000	1.15
+++ Overview.html	24 Jan 2010 16:40:39 -0000	1.16
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
     <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="a-mechanism-for-embedding-rdf-in-html">A
     mechanism for embedding RDF in HTML</h2>
 
-    <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-date-20-January-2010">W3C
+    <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-date-24-January-2010">W3C
     Working Draft 15 January 2010</h2><!--:ZZZ-->
 
     <dl>
@@ -321,9 +321,8 @@
   <p>Implementors should be aware that this specification is not stable.
   <strong>Implementors who are not taking part in the discussions are likely
   to find the specification changing out from under them in incompatible
-  ways.</strong> Vendors interested in implementing this specification before
-  it eventually reaches the Candidate Recommendation stage should join the
-  aforementioned mailing lists and take part in the discussions.</p>
+  ways.</strong> Vendors interested in implementing this specification should
+  note the status, and are encouraged to join the RDFa Working Group.</p>
   <!-- not everyone agrees with html5 (requested before fpwd) -->
 
   <p>Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C
@@ -332,12 +331,21 @@
   document as other than work in progress.</p>
 
   <p>The publication of this document by the W3C as a W3C Working Draft does
-  not imply that all of the participants in the W3C HTML working group
-  endorse the contents of the specification. Indeed, for any section of the
-  specification, one can usually find many members of the working group or of
-  the W3C as a whole who object strongly to the current text, the existence
-  of the section at all, or the idea that the working group should even spend
-  time discussing the concept of that section.</p>
+  not imply endorsement by the majority of members of the W3C HTML working
+  group or the W3C as a whole. In particular,</p>
+
+  <ul>
+    <li>There are one or more alternate methods of adding data without using
+    RDFa, such as [<a href=
+    "http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html">microdata</a>].</li>
+
+    <li>There are discussions of alternate extensibility mechanisms, covered
+    in [<a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/41">issue-41</a>],
+    which might allow other ways of integrating RDFa.</li>
+
+    <li>There is concern that continued development of this document belongs
+    in a different working group.</li>
+  </ul>
   <!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- version history or list of changes (required) -->
 
   <p>The latest stable version of the editor's draft of this specification is
@@ -348,9 +356,10 @@
   prepared) is also available.</p>
   <!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING LIST TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- status of document, group responsible (required) -->
 
-  <p>The W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">HTML Working Group</a> is
-  the W3C working group responsible for this specification's progress along
-  the W3C Recommendation track.</p>
+  <p>This specification has been developed by the <a href=
+  "http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/">RDFa Task Force</a> and is
+  currently being published by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">W3C
+  HTML Working Group</a> to further discussions there.</p>
   <!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- context and rationale (required) -->
 
   <p>This specification is an extension to the HTML5 language. All normative

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