- From: Rob Sayre <rsayre@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 11:39:23 -0400
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- CC: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 5/21/09 10:09 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > Larry Masinter wrote: >> >> I am not satisfied with the Sam's suggested "Process for Proposals", >> as it >> is at odds with the W3C process, and subject to manipulations that are >> inconsistent with a transparent open standards process. > > Any process is subject to manipulations. That's why we have chairs, > domain leaders, etc. If you believe that I have been other than > transparent and open, I ask that you say so now. As to being 'at odds > with the W3C process'... while I will grant that this working group is > operating in a novel and unique way, and has done so since well before > I assumed co-chairmanship, I can find nothing in the W3C process > documentation that would support such a claim. "The HTML5 work isn’t using the traditional W3C approach, and will never use a consensus approach so long as I am editor. Consensus simply isn’t a good way to get technically solid specifications, and is in any case basically impossible to achieve in a group with hundreds of participants such as this one." - Ian Hickson [1] That statement seems straightforwardly at odds with the W3C process, where consensus is listed as a core value. - Rob [1] http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/11/20/Half-Full#c12273175611
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