Re: clarification on Adobe Blocking

Thanks for posting this here.

Could the authors of the following two additional messages from w3c- 
archive please post them here:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2010Feb/0108.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2010Feb/0110.html

Or at least indicate whether they are still operative?

 From perusing the blogs and the twitters, the contents of these  
messages appear to be causing confusion among those who are able to  
read them, and among those who cannot read them but have heard rumors.  
Some claim they appear to contradict some of what was stated in  
public, others say these messages are surely not relevant and only  
what was posted in public needs to be considered.

Regards,
Maciej

On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Larry Masinter wrote:

> Astounding
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Masinter
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:58 AM
> To: 'Philippe Le Hegaret'
> Cc: Dan Connolly; Michael(tm) Smith (mike@w3.org); Carl Cargill
> Subject: RE: Documents not in scope for HTML-WG
>
> This is just one little issue in the big picture.
>
> But I don't see any reason to give in, since
> there are simple remedies.
>
> ===============================================
>
> A Working Group charter MUST include:
>
> .. The nature of any deliverables (technical reports,
> reviews of the deliverables of other groups, or software),
> expected milestones, and the process for the group
> participants to approve the release of these
> deliverables (including public intermediate results)."
>
> The working group chairs propose to publish
> several new documents as deliverables.
>
> These deliverables not in the charter, and do
> not have expected milestones. This is more
> than just a "scope" question. (I'm sure you
> can stretch the scope to cover how to
> eat cheese as an evolution of HTML4 if
> you want to.)
>
> I can think of two possible remedies:
>
>
> 1) update the "Status of This Document" of
>   these documents so that it is clear they
>   are not currently (until a charter update)
>   deliverables of W3C HTML WG.
> 2) update the charter to include these
>   deliverables, with milestones
>
> 1: Updating the "Status of This Document" of
> these documents requires only someone
> (the editor, with direction of the chairs)
> to edit the documents before they are published.
> I offered edits which were made to the
> HTML5+RDFa document but not the others.
>
> The working group chairs have refused
> to request this change.
>
> 2: Updating the charter would require establishing
> expected milestones for these documents, and
> then the director to notify the W3C Advisory
> Committee of the charter change; the rationale
> could be to split up the large document into
> pieces that can be reviewed. Again, since this
> is the intent, and there is general agreement
> to doing this, there should be little difficulty
> accomplishing this charter change.
>
> The working group chairs have refused to
> pursue a charter update.
>
> I think there remain concerns about the
> actual milestones for progressing these
> documents, because of contentious issues
> like distributed extensibility and its
> effect on the metadata proposals, and
> accessibility for canvas. But addressing
> those are crucial responsibilities for
> the working group chairs to address,
> as required by the W3C process.
>
>
> Larry
> --
> http://larry.masinter.net
>
>
>
>
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