Final 6 months

Dear all,

With next week's F2F imminent, I wanted to try and give the WG some 
pointers to what needs to be done between now and June, W3C 
process-wise. Scott/others may have more to add to complete the OGC side 
of things.


Horizontal Review
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As everyone is, I think, well aware, the target for next week's meeting 
is that all documents will be published/updated immediately after the 
Christmas and New Year break. Existing WDs updated, the Coverages 
documents published as FPWDs.

We should use those publications as the basis for seeking horizontal 
reviews from the Internationalisation, Accessibility, Security and 
Privacy groups (this can take up to 3 months so every week counts). This 
means we send e-mails to those groups inviting review, highlighting 
areas where we think they'll have particular interest, or, to say we 
don't see any specific areas of interest to them but would welcome their 
confirmation of that.

Implementation Reports for SSN and OWL Time
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If SSN and OWL Time are to become Recs/standards we must gather evidence 
of implementation. Although not formally required for the other 
documents, it adds weight to them if we can do it. I know the SSN group 
has this front and centre of their minds, I'm more concerned about OWL 
Time. If we don't have the capacity to identify and document uses of the 
vocab, it will have to be a Note. Even then, we need to close off the 
currently open issues.

To reach Rec by the end of June, we need to have gather that 
implementation evidence by mid-May the very latest (Proposed Rec) which 
means we need to be into Candidate Rec immediately after the March F2F 
in Delft, i.e. *all* issues closed, document stable and complete, ready 
for implementation. No normative changes can be made after this (or you 
have to re-run the CR phase).


I don't mean to sound like an ogre/whip cracker, I'm just trying to give 
info about the scale of the task ahead of us. Unlike OGC, W3C WGs *do* 
have a fixed term. Our original charter expires at the end of this 
month. I don't expect an extension to be possible after 30 June 2017, 
nor do I think it desirable so the clock is ticking.

Phil.




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Phil Archer
Data Strategist, W3C
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Received on Wednesday, 7 December 2016 10:21:06 UTC