- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 14:15:59 -0500
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Dan Connolly<connolly@w3.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:27 -0500, Shelley Powers wrote: >> I followed the teleconference in IRC archives. A lot of stuff. > > Take it with a grain of salt; the IRC log misses a lot. > > I think this is in response to a comment I made; I'll leave > the other question to others. > >> Is it true that the Working Group can't comment during Last Call? That >> we have to raise issues before then? > > Last call is a decision that the WG is done with all the issues > it knows about. So it's out of order for a WG member to > be party to a decision that we've addressed all our issues > and then turn around and send last call comments. > > That makes sense. It does ensure that people express concerns in a timely manner. > There's an exception: if a WG member genuinely discovers new > information after last call, it's in order to comment > on that. > Again, that makes sense, too. > Note that being party to a decision doesn't necessarily mean > supporting it; even those who disagree or abstain or > formally object to a decision are party to it, given > buy-in to W3C process which gives the chair > responsibility see that people get to make > their case and to decide when the search for consensus has > reached diminishing returns and bring an issue to a close > despite outstanding dissent. > > http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#Consensus > Does the issue go to a vote, then? If there is no possibility of consensus? >> If this is true, is Last Call still on schedule for October? Do we >> know when in October? > > We can only go to last call in October if we close issues > a lot faster than we have been. > If it would help, I could *quit the group. > -- > Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ > gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E > > Thanks for clarification, Dan. Shelley *Yes, that was a joke.
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