- From: James Rosewell via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 11:15:50 +0000
- To: public-patcg@w3.org
There is an assumption in the response to this issue that the adoption of the standards created by the working group will be optional for all participants of the web. The reality is that this is not the intention of the proposers. The intention of the proposers is to restrict the choices that the majority of web participants will have. For example; a web site operator and their suppliers who do not want to use IPA will not have access to the raw input data to IPA to be able to implement something else. It is optional only for web browser implementors who represent the least significant minority but have the most influence. As such @jaylett-annalect statement (emphasis added)... > If something roughly the shape of IPA emerges to the standards track then it *doesn't preclude other approaches being developed or used alongside it* ... is not true in practice because it is the intention of participants in the group to preclude other approaches. It is for this reason that this issue is so important to resolve now. An alternative method of dealing with the concern is to modify the charter so that the "primarily non-technical" solutions developed by the group MUST make the input data available to all and do nothing to restrict lawful access to data. -- GitHub Notification of comment by jwrosewell Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/patcg/patwg-charter/issues/8#issuecomment-1083000890 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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