Managing Public Comments to the RDF WG

Hi all,

The purpose of the public-rdf-comments mailing list is to ensure that members of the public may suggest changes to or raise concerns about specifications managed by the RDF Working Group.  Importantly, the RDF WG has a requirement to ensure that each public comment is formally addressed.  That is very hard for us to accomplish when detailed and long-running design discussions take place on that list.

We discussed the management of the public-rdf-comments list during today's telecon and decided that long-running conversations should not take place on that list.  Members of the public wishing to hold such discussions are encouraged to do so on semantic-web@w3.org, public-lod@w3.org, other mailing lists or via interpersonal communications.

Members of the public should therefore limit traffic on public-rdf-comments to concrete proposals to change RDF WG specifications.  The public-rdf-comments mailing list should not be copied on messages to other mailing lists.

Members of the RDF WG should refrain from replying to public-rdf-comments without permission of the WG chairs.  

Thank you.

Regards,
Dave
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