- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:02:30 -0800
- To: HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
The Chairs have discussed how to move forward on ISSUE-76 and Microdata. We have received a Change Proposal to move Microdata out of the main spec, and a Counter-Proposal to keep it in the spec, both including reasonable arguments. We have also seen that there is clearly not unanimity or even rough consensus on which path is preferable. Therefore, per the W3C Process, we must seek the decision that will create the weakest objections[1]. In order to enable this, we will use the following process: 1) The Change Proposal authors have until Thursday's telecon to update and revise their Change Propoals as they see fit. 2) Starting Thursday immediately after the telecon and running for the following week, we will hold a straw poll to determine what objections would be raised to adopting either proposal. Some details of this straw poll: - We will not do any numerical counting all the votes. All we will look at is the objections and rationale presented. - The poll will be via the Web-based polling mechanism. There will be two comment boxes to register objections, if any, to either Change Proposal. - Any poll response that does not state an objection to either proposal will be ignored. - It is not sufficient to just cite a Change Proposal or someone else's comment; you have to actually state an objection. Though it is ok to quote text from somewhere else if it adequately reflects your thoughts. - To the extent we apply any numerical analysis to the results, we would weight the sum of all responses from a given organization at the weight of one vote; however our intent is to primarily look at the strength of objections, not their count. 3) At the end of the above process, the Chairs will read over the Change Proposals and all submitted objections with an open mind, to determine which option would result in the weakest objections. We will primarily evaluate the strength of the objections, not the count on each side, as per W3C Process. Then we will declare that Change Proposal that draws weaker objections to be a Decision of the Working Group. 4) Anyone who afterwards wishes to raise a Formal Objection to the decision of the Working Group will be free to do so. Regards, Maciej [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#managing-dissent
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