- From: Michael(tm) Smith <mike@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:20:01 +0900
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, 2010-06-15 22:40 -0700: > ISSUE-56 was raised in error by Michael(tm) Smith based on a > misunderstanding of Roy's messages to the working group. Just for the record: No, it was not raised in error -- though I will fully admit I may have personally misunderstood the details of the actual disagreement. Not that it really matters at this point, and again, just for the record: It was raised because we had a clear disagreement among some members for the group about something, and there was a request at some point to escalate it to an issue. Which is exactly what happened. The issue description was an attempt to capture some brief statement about what the actual disagreement was, as I understood it. If it's inaccurate or misleading, it's likely due to the fact that I put in in there by proxy, instead of it being added by the people who actually disagreed with what was in the spec in regard to this (of which I was never one, btw). FWIW, I very rarely (or ever) do that any more, because of just the problem illustrated here: Raising an issue on behalf of whoever else by proxy can result in telephone-game confusion about the actual details. Especially when it's not an issue I personally agree with. > To lend even more credence to this rationale, I quote from the very > same email message [2] written by Roy that Michael(tm) Smith cited in > the description of ISSUE-56. This quote was omitted from the > description of ISSUE-56 for reasons unknown to me: You and me both. I certainly did not intentionally omit anything essential. I just tried to put something that documented what the core of the disagreement was, as I understood. Perhaps I was not successful at doing that, and perhaps I did misunderstand some details. But there certainly always was (and still is) a disagreement here that needs to be resolved. --Mike P.S. I personally agree fully with the actual changes you propose, FWIW. -- Michael(tm) Smith http://people.w3.org/mike
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