- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:41:36 +0100
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, www-forms@w3.org
On 12/03/2007 19:17, Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > I think we're at the heart of a fundamental question that the group > will need to address. Is the new WG starting from scratch, or are we > building on the work of the WHAT WG? Answer to this question is almost trivial : we're mid-march. The first WD for this WG is scheduled to be released __next june__. If we start from scratch, I suggest we add another four years to all dates in the schedule... > I have immense respect for good editors. Both Dave and Ian are among > those. Dave did his pioneering work on HTML in the mid-90s and Ian > continued it 10 years later. > > My gut feeling -- and I only speak on behalf of my own gut -- is that > trying to create a new W3C draft in parallel with WHAT WG will be an > insurmountable challenge for any editor, and confusing for > implementors and users. I would therefore nominate Ian to continue his > role as editor in the new HTML WG, thereby building on the work of the > WHAT WG. This seems faster, more efficient, and a more peaceful. I have no problem with that. It only means the very first task of the newly created WG when it's up and running is a full review of the current WHAT WG draft, right ? </Daniel>
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