[All] ITS2 updated time line and "your eyes" needed

Hi all,

the outcome of the discussion with W3C mgmt this week is: to go to 
proposed recommendation we will need to have another last call draft. 
The changes needed are actually rather small:

- update the HTML5 references to point to
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-html5-20130806/dom.html#phrasing-content
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-html5-20130806/dom.html#the-translate-attribute

- integrate comments from the RDF WG (if there are any to come)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-multilingualweb-lt/2013Aug/0001.html

- make NIF a *non* normative reference (also, remove the two conformance 
clauses 2-4 and 3-4 related to NIF processing in XML / HTML - and make 
the non normative status of NIF tests explicit in the test suite). This 
is needed not because of technical reasons - all implementation and 
testing work Sebastian / we did is not in question at all. The reason 
for changing to non normative is that NIF  does not yet have a formal 
standardization organisation as an umbrella.


The time schedule then will be

1) publish a new LC draft 15 August (previous published draft was LC 
draft 21 May)
2) go to PR mid September
3) got to REC end of October / early November

So to the general world we can "market this" like: ITS2 is done - but 
small clarifications will lead to a delay of the publication of the 
final standard. Which is not too bad in terms of our funding context - 
the "final standard" deliverable D2.4 is promised in September, so we 
have a delay about a few weeks.


One thing is needed though: many eyes looking at the upcoming drafts. I 
know you are all busy with implementation stuff, reporting and other 
upcoming work outside this group. But please follow the steps 1) - 3), 
e.g. try to be at next weeks call to vote for publication on Thursday. 
If it is just a few people following the updates, discussions etc., we 
might make a mistake and really run out of time.

If you have comments please reply in this thread. I will provide edits 
by today EOB for you to review until next week Wednesday.

Best,

Felix

Received on Friday, 9 August 2013 06:51:08 UTC