- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:06:43 +0200
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Shelley I think you are missing something rather fundamental. We are in working drafts at the moment, and there have not been any 'votes'. We put into working drafts (a) our best ideas of the technology as it is developing, so we can critique, experiment with, and build upon it - for example, the markup of the <video> element; and (b) our consensus, where we have it, on other issues. Consensus, by the way, in most standards organizations, is defined as the lack of sustained objection (by anyone). We don't *need* to decide on mandatory, recommended, optional, or to-avoid codecs until quite late in the process. It doesn't affect our understanding of the spec. or development of it, or building on it. The question can remain quite easily open, if it needs to. I think it would be a much better use of my time, your time, and everyone else's, probably, if we used our time to try to reach consensus, rather than complaining about something that has not happened. We haven't voted. Where we are is at a failure to reach consensus, which indeed later in the process might cause a formal vote. I hope we can reach consensus instead; perhaps you do too. -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
Received on Wednesday, 8 July 2009 14:09:40 UTC