[html-chairs] WG Decision: 6 Documents proceed to Last Call

Note that there will be follow-on emails which address the specific 
feedback that was received (including both Formal Objections and 
Rationale provided), updates that need to be made to the status sections 
of the various documents, as well as a Last Call announcement itself.

This email is solely focused on evaluating the votes cast in the survey 
itself:

http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/html5-last-call-poll/results

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On 05/15/2011 02:14 PM, Paul Cotton wrote:
>
> This poll covers moving the following specifications to Last Call
> Working Draft:
>
> 1. HTML5: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/

Quorum was met with 110 votes cast (including abstentions) by 40
organizations.

This vote PASSES with 95 YES votes out of 104 non-abstaining votes cast
(91.35%).

0 Formal Objections were raised.

> 2. HTML+RDFa: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/

Quorum was met with 107 votes cast (including abstentions) by 39
organizations.

This vote PASSES with 71 YES votes out of 82 non-abstaining votes cast
(86.59%).

0 Formal Objections were raised.

> 3. HTML Microdata: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/

Quorum was met with 107 votes cast (including abstentions) by 39
organizations.

This vote PASSES with 68 YES votes out of 74 non-abstaining votes cast
(91.89%).

0 Formal Objections were raised.

> 4. HTML Canvas 2D Context: http://dev.w3.org/html5/2dcontext/

Quorum was met with 107 votes cast (including abstentions) by 39
organizations.

This vote PASSES with 95 YES votes out of 95 non-abstaining votes cast
(100.00%).

0 Formal Objections were raised.

> 5. HTML/XHTML  Compatibility Authoring Guidelines: http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html

Quorum was met with 108 votes cast (including abstentions) by 39
organizations.

This vote PASSES with 68 YES votes out of 85 non-abstaining votes cast
(80.00%).

1 Formal Objection was raised:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011May/0050.html

> 6. HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives: http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/

Quorum was met with 108 votes cast (including abstentions) by 39
organizations.

This vote PASSES with 73 YES votes out of 90 non-abstaining votes cast
(81.11%).

2 Formal Objections were raised:

   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011May/0051.html
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011May/0052.html

- Sam Ruby

Received on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:30:33 UTC