Re: Last Call decision poll

On May 17, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote:

> On May 15, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Paul Cotton wrote:
> 
>>> 9. May 15-22: WG survey on Last Call based on May 8 Editor's draft
>> 
>> As per my message [1] on Mar 31, we are scheduled to commence a poll of the HTML WG on moving some of our specifications to Last Call  today.  
> 
> Why are we having a last call poll on a draft that isn't even published yet?
> Publish it with a date first and then call the poll, so that the comments
> received can be grounded on a specific version of the specs.

In the W3C, it is not conventional to first publish a document as an ordinary Working Draft and then that identical version as a Last Call Working Draft. Rather, the Working Group publishes a new version as a Last Call Working Draft directly.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 22:57:02 UTC