- From: Michael Bolger <michael@michaelbolger.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:25:04 -0800
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Cc: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, public-rdfa@w3.org, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Sam Ruby wrote: > Anybody is allowed to produce a spec. In fact, the license that Ian > made his spec available under has liberal provisions for productions > of derivative works. If such a spec attracts a larger consensus than > the one that Ian is producing, it will be adopted by the HTML working > group. > > For something resembling RDFa to be included in HTML 5, somebody needs > to do the work and gain consensus. That means either convincing Ian, > convincing somebody else, or picking up that work yourself. > As an "outsider" from the "street"; HTML 5, Google, Mozilla, Apple, are in control of the spec(?). Ian is the gatekeeper/editor?
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