Plans for our Accessibility of Remote Meetings document

Dear colleagues,
At the meeting today, the two leading options for further development of the Accessibility of Remote Meetings document appeared to be:

  1.  To create a Note-track deliverable.
  2.  To develop it as a W3C/WAI Resource.
No one expressed support for leaving it as a Wiki page. My personal view is that it is a publication opportunity which we should pursue.
Both options involve converting the document to a suitable HTML format. To answer a question that Janina raised at the meeting, I quickly ran Pandoc to convert the existing wiki page to HTML. The resulting markup is generally of good quality (XHTML 5). There would be some markup editing needed, of course, but it wouldn’t be extensive.
W3C Notes use ReSpec; I don’t know what the format requirements are for WAI Resources, but I wouldn’t expect them to be difficult to satisfy. If ReSpec can be used for a WAI Resource, then we could convert to HTML and ReSpec format even before deciding what type of document (Note or Resource) we ultimately wanted to publish. Thus, as expected, the conversion into whatever HTML format we need should be a not greatly time-consuming, once-only operation.
It seems to me there was a balance of opinion at the meeting today (not necessarily a consensus) that we should seek wide review of this document, when ready, as we would a Note-track publication. Proceeding toward a Working Group Note would give us a more formal development process and established procedures for documenting and resolving issues. I don’t know what processes are associated with developing WAI Resources, as I’ve never been associated with one. It is my understanding that a Note implies a greater level of W3C review, and may thus be preferable from the perspective of individuals and organizations who wish to cite it in their work. Both types of document can be revised relatively easily, if I understand correctly. Would a Resource still undergo the same Call for Consensus by APA to proceed to publication?
Is there any advantage in this case to publishing as a WAI Resource rather than as a Working Group Note?
We appear to be leaning toward wanting the formal process in order to produce a high-quality publication (regardless of what the final status is).

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