proposed statement of group goal

To try to get us more in sync, let me suggest the following as a
statement of what we're trying to do here, as a group:

    To write a document which is accepted as the TAG finding on
    rdfURIMeaning-39 by March 1, 2004.

TAG findings are listed on 

    http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/findings

and seem to run about 1000-2000 words, although the draft on
addressability is currently over 4000.

Some of the ideas behind this mission statement:

     -- it doesn't really matter if we have consensus on an issue,
        except that if we do, we're more likely to convince the TAG;
        what matters is that they (and ultimately the W3C Members)
        find it acceptable

     -- we have a lot of overlap in membership with the TAG (three of
        the nine TAG members have sent introductions so far; I'm
        expecting at least one more), so communication between the
        groups should not be hard 

     -- whatever we can't distill into ~10 pages wont get very
        wide readership anyway

     -- the deadline is arbitrary, but it's important to have a
        deadline to help us understand our pacing

     -- the exact statement of rdfURIMeaning-39 does not constrain us
        (Bijan today pointed out problems with the e-mail which
        officially raised the issue), but we should stick to that
        scope (as best we understand it) for now.   If some of us want
        to handle some other bit of work, that's fine to do
        separately, perhaps in a second stage.

This is a good time for replies which just quote a line or two (like
the goal-statement text) and say "+1", "+0", "-0", or "-1".  For
people who don't know this protocol, it's kind of the replacement for
looking around the room and seeing if people look happy or unhappy
about an idea.  The +/- indicates positive or negative feelings
towards the proposal, and the 0/1 indicates the strength of those
feelings.  Alternative proposals are, of course, also welcome.

       -- sandro

Received on Friday, 19 September 2003 17:48:43 UTC