Re: epubtest.com domain (was Re: Interesting....)

But what about epubtest.com? I understand the W3C wanting w3.org to be the
hub. But who controls epubtest.org now? And don't we want that same party
to control epubtest.com, if the present owner is willing to turn it over?
We discussed this a couple of weeks ago (that DAISY/W3C/BISG call) but now
I'm confused on who was going to be responsible for that--I thought it was
the W3C, but if not, should DAISY or BISG do it? Somebody needs to.

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On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org> wrote:

> Sorry – I meant epubcheck.w3.org as a possible replacement for
> validator.idpf.org (sheesh even I was confusing epubtest and epubtest
> there for a minute, sigh). Anyway name aside, how and where to host a
> definitive instance of the validator is of course just one minor piece of
> the whole epubcheck refresh project... this was just a “for instance”
> hypothetical.
>
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill McCoy <bmccoy@w3.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 6, 2018 8:05 AM
> *To:* 'Siegman, Tzviya' <tsiegman@wiley.com>; 'AUDRAIN LUC' <
> LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>; 'Ivan Herman' <ivan@w3.org>; 'Dave Cramer' <
> dauwhe@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* 'W3C Publishing Steering Committee' <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>;
> 'Rick Johnson' <Rick.Johnson@vitalsource.com>
> *Subject:* RE: epubtest.com domain (was Re: Interesting....)
>
>
>
> Hi Tzivya,
>
>
>
> Karen and I discussed w/ W3C Comm team and within W3C management at the
> time of the combination and the conclusion was that we wanted to build
> community at w3.org/publishing and not manage additional separate sites.
> Someday we might have subdomains, e.g. epubtest.w3.org as replacement for
> validator.idpf.org but we want w3.org to be the hub for new info and we
> didn’t have the resources to maintain the most likely suspect for ongoing
> use, epubzone.org, or keep idpf.org “current”, and there was concern this
> would be dilutive to the spirit of the combination as well as confusing in
> practice. I don’t see any reason to revisit this analysis now, do you?
>
>
>
> Separately we want to make sure not to lose any content and don’t impair 3
> rd party SW that may be pinging URIs referenced in old specs but archival
> is not Comm responsibility, it’s something between Ralph & me and perhaps
> Sys Team at W3C (of course that we failed to renew epubzone.org domain is
> still a black eye re: this even if we hadn’t wanted to continue to operate
> it, mea culpa).
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> --Bill
>
>
>
> *From:* Siegman, Tzviya <tsiegman@wiley.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 6, 2018 5:43 AM
> *To:* AUDRAIN LUC <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>; Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>;
> Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* W3C Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>;
> Rick Johnson <Rick.Johnson@vitalsource.com>
> *Subject:* RE: epubtest.com domain (was Re: Interesting....)
>
>
>
> I think it’s a good idea. On the topic, Bill, didn’t you assemble a list
> of domain names that IDPF owned and/or had a stake in? Can we pass that on
> to the comms team?
>
>
>
> *Tzviya Siegman*
>
> Information Standards Lead
>
> Wiley
>
> 201-748-6884
>
> tsiegman@wiley.com
>
>
>
> *From:* AUDRAIN LUC [mailto:LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr
> <LAUDRAIN@hachette-livre.fr>]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 6, 2018 5:38 AM
> *To:* Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>; Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* W3C Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>;
> Rick Johnson <Rick.Johnson@vitalsource.com>
> *Subject:* Re: epubtest.com domain (was Re: Interesting....)
>
>
>
> I’m ok!
>
> Luc
>
>
>
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> *De : *Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
> *Date : *mercredi 6 juin 2018 à 11:31
> *À : *Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>
> *Cc : *W3C Publishing Steering Committee <public-publishing-sc@w3.org>,
> Rick Johnson <Rick.Johnson@vitalsource.com>
> *Objet : *Re: epubtest.com domain (was Re: Interesting....)
> *Renvoyer - De : *<public-publishing-sc@w3.org>
> *Renvoyer - Date : *Wed, 6 Jun 2018 09:31:52 +0000
>
>
>
> If the SC is o.k. with this, I believe Bill should talk to the W3C systeam
> who maintains such domains registrations.
>
>
>
> Ivan
>
>
>
> On 5 Jun 2018, at 19:25, Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Who should take the lead on this? Maybe BillM? Scott emailed me
> privately wondering why he didn't get a response yet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 3:14 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>
> I think it is in our interest to secure these domain and twitter names,
> regardless of whether we do something significant with them or not...
>
> Of course, it is not clear from the mail if Scott is just releasing us the
> domain or whether a financial compensation is also expected... but I don't
> think there is.
>
> (Of course, we will have to talk to the W3C system team who maintain these
> things...)
>
> Ivan
>
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> Publishing@W3C Technical Lead
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> ORCID: 0000-0003-0782-2704
>
> On 3 Jun 2018, 04:57 +0200, Johnson, Rick <Rick.Johnson@vitalsource.com>,
> wrote:
>
> Got this…. Assume some of you did as well.
>
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
> -Rick
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>
>
> From: Scott Prentice <sp14@leximation.com>
>
> Subject: epubtest.org/com
>
> Date: June 1, 2018 at 6:28:28 PM MST
>
> To: epub-working-group@googlegroups.com
>
> Reply-To: epub-working-group@googlegroups.com
>
>
>
> I'm the owner of the epubtest.com domain, and will likely not be renewing
> it
> when it expires later this year (Nov 2018). I'd gladly transfer this to the
> epubtest.org group if that's of interest. I also have the @epubtest
> Twitter
> account, which I'd be willing to part with if it could go to a good home.
>
> Please contact me off-list if you're interested in taking ownership of
> either of these.
>
> Thanks,
> ...scott
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