- From: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:29:50 -0500
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Le 29 janv. 2009 à 18:13, Boris Zbarsky a écrit :
> Robin Berjon wrote:
>> In the spirit of tiptoeing around the situation some more, I'd like
>> to point out that Working Drafts are NEVER normative. Only
>> Recommendations are.
>
> While true, a Working Draft is ipso facto something that is intended
> to become a Recommendation if it gathers consensus.
no. And here I hope you can trust me on this, I have been involved in
far too many transitions calls and specs reviews.
Working Drafts no longer in development
These Working Drafts have either been dropped as work items or
have been incorporated into other documents. The latest version
of each of these documents should be an epilogue for the
document. The status section of the epilogue explains why the
work was discontinued or where the document was incorporated.
http://www.w3.org/TR/#WD-stop
Editors Draft were usually not really visible but really the draft to
put ideas, noodling with editing, etc. Working Draft is to make a
snapshot of this editing ideas, with a stable date, so people can
review, make comments, raise issues. The thing which makes me
uncomfortable in this discussion is that we are moving targets again,
editors draft being used as what is a working draft.
Working Draft is an experiment until it reaches Last Call.
Editor Draft is for the *editor(s)*
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Karl Dubost
Montréal, QC, Canada
http://twitter.com/karlpro
Received on Thursday, 29 January 2009 23:30:26 UTC