- From: Shelley Powers <shelleyp@burningbird.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 09:18:51 -0500
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- CC: "Dailey, David P." <david.dailey@sru.edu>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Laura Carlson wrote: > Hi David, > > >> Yes, indeed! It is nice to see my own opposition (which fell just short, alas, of a formal objection) >> preserved for posterity. I do wish I would have been a bit more eloquent >> > > You were quite eloquent when you voted no and predicted, > > "While it has been argued that these Design Principles may serve to > present needless reiteration of previous discussions, I have not seen > any evidence that they do. I have merely observed a large amount of > time spent debating them (reiteratively), absent final "consensus" (to > use the vernacular sense of the term), in the end. I have seen, on > several occasions, design principles misused (even prior to their > "approval") to quash dissent, and fear the same being done again. I > strongly feel that, if recommended by the W3C, they are in need of a > very strong disclaimer about their limitations, the presence of > strongly felt dissent, the potential impossibility of consistent > implementation of them, examples of proper and improper applications > of them, and a need for a periodic and systematic review of the > principles as well as the methodology for their debate and approval. > In the long run, the tyranny of the majority, that the climate > surrounding their debate fostered, had a chilling effect on the group > overall. The humor with which I raised my original objections has > largely vanished, but my opposition to them has not. It is not so much > the individual principles (which I chose not to vote on for various > reasons in October) but the whole package that troubles me. > Collectively, they seem rather like the Galactic Federation posting a > note on a nearby planet that your own planet is soon to be destroyed. > But then, I can be a pessimist at times." > http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/wdhdp/results > > Best Regards, > Laura > I second Laura's assessment of the eloquence of your objection. Shelley
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