- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:55:26 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
On 03.03.2010 23:31, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > Team, > > Please advise. > > On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> I assume that W3C has a policy of that all W3C recommendations has to >> be freely available. Thus I don't think having normative dependencies >> on non-free specifications could be allowed. > > Would it be against W3C policy to have a normative dependency on a > specification that is not freely available? > ... How is that material different from citing ISO-8601 (which HTML5 does)? Or citing other specs that have normative reference to specs that aren't "freely" available, such as IETF STD 68? That being said, I would *love* if there was a good "official" online reference for ASCII, but as far as I can't tell there isn't (unless we decide to like ECMA-006). Citing something else which is online but isn't a proper reference in any case is no solution. Best regards, Julian
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