- From: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@ulsberg.no>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:32:34 +0200
- To: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, work@gavinpearce.co.uk
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:03:40 +0100, Chris Wilson <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> wrote: > I want to evolve HTML. I thought at one point, apparently naively, that > since I could see both sides of the issue - the value of both the WHATWG > goals and the W3C IP policy and process - that perhaps I could help here > and make this a better world. I really hope you will, and I see value in your position as well, including the fact that you work in Microsoft as the platform architect of Internet Explorer. I see it as extremely important that you, other Microsoft representatives and in the end Internet Explorer embrace the ideas and solutions we come to in this Working Group and I hope other members of the WG sees this as too valuable to ignore too. > I can't do that and fight personal battles at the same time. I feel > I've been doing that, being accused of making some kind of secret > back-room deals or something that I simply haven't been doing. To be honest; just ignore all remarks you find to be personal. It's not worth your time, and not ours either. > Perhaps this just caught me at a bad time; Daniel's mail to me seemed to > imply that a sizable portion of the group does not want me to be > co-chair. I did not read that into what Daniel wrote, and for whatever it's worth, he didn't speak on my behalf if he so did. > If you collectively don't think it's a good idea to have me as co-chair, > then I'd prefer not to waste my time, and I'm sure Dan will do a fine > job. I'm asking for a vote of confidence (or not) from the rest of the > group. My feelings are not going to be hurt either way. My vote would be for you to continue as a chair of this WG, if such a vote were to be held. I can't see any reason for it to come to that, though. > Regardless of my co-chairship, someone from Microsoft will participate > in this WG. I've said that before, it continues to be true. Even if I > am co-chair, I've said I think it might be a good idea to have a > different Microsoft WG representative. I agree; we need more Microsoft representatives here. > I'm sorry we have not been agile in getting approval for that > participation; I take full personal responsibility for that. It has > been an accident of very poor timing, a somewhat lengthy process that > we must follow internal to Microsoft for due diligence, and my own > time management that has caused this delay, not necessarily in that > order. It is not due to a lack of interest or desire. I believe this is what Daniel was asking for, namely a "ping" from you and a status report of what was going on and why it was taking so long for you and other Microsoft representatives to join and start participating in the WG. An e-mail one, two or three weeks ago stating what you just did would not have brought up this discussion, I'm sure. -- Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- http://virtuelvis.com/quark/ «He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»
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