Re: [wbs] Response to 'Call for Review: Web Editing Working Group Charter'

The PR as promised in section (2.) of the comment in our charter vote:

https://github.com/w3c/editing/pull/534

Thanks for your consideration,

Tantek

On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 3:30 AM Tantek Çelik via WBS Mailer
<noreply+wbs@w3.org> wrote:
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> The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Call for Review:
> Web Editing Working Group Charter' (Advisory Committee) for Mozilla
> Foundation by Tantek Çelik.
>
> Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed until 2026-04-30 at:
>   https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/webediting-wg-charter-2026/
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> > Support for the proposal
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> > In case of Formal Objection: Per section 5.5 of the W3C Process Document
> > requiring that a record of each Formal Objection must be publicly
> > available, we encourage your organization to make their response public..
> > You may do so by setting the visibility of your response to this
> > questionnaire to public. If it instead chooses to make it Member-visible,
> > or Team-only, and does not provide an alternate public version, the Team
> > may make the Formal Objection public without attribution, per section
> > 7.3.
> > My organization:
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>  * ( ) supports this Charter as is.
>  * (x) suggests changes to this Charter, but supports the proposal whether
> or not the changes are adopted (your details below).
>  * ( ) does not support this Charter for the reasons cited in comments but
> is not raising a Formal Objection (your details below).
>  * ( ) suggests changes to this Charter, and only supports the proposal if
> the changes are adopted [Formal Objection] (your details below).
>  * ( ) opposes this Charter and requests that this group not be created
> [Formal Objection] (your details below).
>  * ( ) abstains from this review.
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> Comments:
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> 1. We are concerned with the apparent slow progress of this Working Group..
> The editors of the specs appear to be in good faith lacking the time to
> help move the specs forward, for reasons unknown.
>
> We suggest exploring more
> efficient alternatives for iterating and evolving
> these documents that require less editor time investment in order to make
> forward progress more quickly.
>
> Others have suggested possibly migrating the
> specifications that have
> multi-implementer interest and/or implementations to WHATWG. We would
> support such a migration if the editors of those specifications would be ok
> with doing so.
>
> 2. We are even more strongly concerned that there appears to
> be a slight
> weakening of the exit criteria by removing a bit about security &
> privacy.
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> We request that the current/previous charter's text regarding
> security &
> privacy be restored. We can file a PR accordingly if there are no
> objections to restoring that language.
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> > Participation
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> > If this proposal is approved, my organization would be interested
> > in
> participating in the following groups. Note: This
> > answer is non-binding;
> after the review
> > a formal Call for Participation will be sent for each
> approved charter.
> > Charters include information about proposed staff
> effort, which may
> > be evaluated in the context of the
> > current staff
> effort tables.
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>  * [x] Web Editing Working Group
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> > Support for Deliverables of the group
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> > My organization:
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>  * [x] intends to review drafts as they are published and send comments.
>  * [x] intends to develop experimental implementations and send experience
> reports (your details below).
>  * [x] intends to develop products based on this work (your details below).
>  * [ ] intends to apply this technology in our operations.
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> > Expected Implementation Schedules
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> > If you expect to implement some deliverables of this activity, please
> > indicate any known schedule for such implementations, without commitment.
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> > Detailed Comments, Reasons, or Modifications
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> > In addition to any comments you may have, please provide details about
> > your answers. This may include, but is not restricted to, technical
> > issues or issues associated with patent claims associated with the
> > specification.
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> > These answers were last modified on 30 April 2026 at 10:30:43 U.T.C.
> > by Tantek Çelik
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