- From: Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:44:45 +0900
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, 2009-06-24 00:20 +0000: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Shelley Powers wrote: > I'm not gatekeeper. I'm just another editor. The chairs are the ones with > the authority to declare consensus, which decides what gets published. I > certainly have no power to reject another draft. > > (The browser vendors are the ultimate gatekeepers, of course, in that they > get to decide what actually gets implemented. It's our role as editors to > make sure we do what they want, otherwise our documents are nothing but > rather dry science fiction.) Browser vendors may collectively be the de facto ultimate gatekeepers as far as implementation decisions about features of the language that require rendering in browsers, or some other kind of associated behavior in browsers -- but they're certainly not the ultimate gatekeepers as far as decisions about document conformance. In particular, they're not gatekeepers at all as far as deciding whether certain existing or proposed elements or attributes that don't have any associated behavior in browsers should be part of the language or not -- or whether they should be optional or required, or how their semantics and contents/values are defined. This working group is the direct owner for those kinds of decisions. And as far as publication of any W3C standard related to those, if there's any ultimate gatekeeper, it's the W3C Director. --Mike -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike/
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