- From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:45:29 -0400
- To: "David (Standards) Singer" <singer@apple.com>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- CC: public-html@w3.org, Daniel Appelquist <appelquist@gmail.com>
[ + W3C Director ] On 9/26/14 7:23 PM, David (Standards) Singer wrote: > On Sep 26, 2014, at 6:02 , Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote: > >> On 09/26/2014 08:28 AM, Brian Kardell wrote: >>> [Snip] >>> Personally I would prefer if WHATWG and W3C can publish exactly same >>> document on bothwhatwg.org <http://whatwg.org>andw3c.org >>> <http://w3c.org>. I mean exactly same (maybe except visual style) so no >>> additional editorial effort on W3C side will be needed. Personally I >>> don't feel that WHATWG is currently enough stable and open body >>> (seehttps://whatwg.org/charter) to provide long term archival place for >>> specifications. >>> [/snip] >>> >>> Hosting an exact copy of a snapshot for reference and archival purposes >>> at w3c doesn't appear to bother anyone as far as I can tell, the concern >>> is with unnecessary forking. Seems sensible, does that make you feel >>> better about it? >> For that to work, at a minimum the W3C would need to publish such a snapshot. The last time that was done was over two years ago. A few links capturing the current state: >> >> http://www.w3.org/2014/06/webapps-charter.html#url >> http://www.w3.org/TR/url/ >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JulSep/0492.html >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2014Sep/0010.html >> http://w3c.github.io/test-results/url/less-than-2.html > I think that the explicit question is whether a document that is a W3C CG snapshot with a suitable title, stable content, which has been through an FSA pass, is good enough for this spec. for the purposes of the HTML5 spec. > > how can we find out? David - my understanding of Jeff's statement in <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Sep/0048.html>, is that the HTMLWG should ask the Director. Tim - FYI, the head of this thread is <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2014Sep/0061.html>. -AB > > if it is, there is a follow-on question; does webapps need to make another copy for some other reason? > > David Singer > Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc. > >
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