Re: CfC: Publish HTML5 Microdata as First Public Working Draft and a new HTML5 Working Draft

On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Shelley Powers wrote:

> I do not support the publication of Microdata as a W3C FPWD.
>
> The same concerns we had previously, that the W3C seemingly promoting
> two separate metadata approaches would cause confusion, still applies.
>
> I think it would be better for the specification to be a WhatWG only
> publication, as Microformats has its own support organization.

As a purely personal comment, I don't think we should be encouraging  
Web technologies to be published in a way that is not covered by a  
suitable patent policy.

Regards,
Maciej