Re: Last Call decision poll

On 2011-05-18 01:31, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> On May 17, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Paul Cotton wrote:
>
>>> Why are we having a last call poll on a draft that isn't even published yet?
>>
>> The poll is to permit WG members to express their position on whether each candidate document should be moved to Last Call Working Draft status.  We have provided a link to each document for your review.  The documents are linked to in the poll itself and in the announcement message.
>
> The links are to the editor's draft.  Even if there are no changes made
> during the polling process, we know that there will be changes made
> *after* the poll is complete and the dated links only work for
> published drafts.  So the external links that I make to sections within
> the document as part of my review will be short-lived and confusing
> unless I go back and republish the review with updated links to the
> new dated documents that are going to be published anyway regardless
> of the WG last call decision.

Exactly.

Note that that editor's draft just gained a normative dependency on CORS 
(<http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4940&r2=1.4941&f=h>).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 18 May 2011 06:48:23 UTC