Re: WG comments, Working Drafts, and Last Call -- clarification please?

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 12:28 -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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> 
> But setting aside the process arcana, I think the bottom line is this:
> 
> Working Groups are supposed to work out issues amongst their members  
> before going to Last Call. The point of Last Call is to announce this  
> to the world, and thereby solicit broader feedback. If Working Group  
> members are raising a lot of serious substantive issues during Last  
> Call, the process has failed.

Yes, that's a better way to put it.

>  But this doesn't mean a member is  
> required to be completely silent and toe the party line. I think you,  
> Dan and I probably agree on the basic principles here, but Dan's way  
> of putting it may have given the impression that Last Call somehow  
> silences Working Group members. I don't think that is the case, and I  
> don't think we should send that impression.
> 
> I should also add that quitting a Working Group in order to reopen  
> closed issues as an outside commenter would be bad faith behavior, and  
> I doubt either the WG or the Director would be favorably disposed to  
> objections raised in such a fashion. I don't think anyone seriously  
> wants to do that, but let's be clear that we're better off working  
> within the process, and there is no actual need to game the system in  
> weird ways.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Maciej
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