Re: This is your (laid-back) chair speaking on transitions...

agreed - thanks Ian for all your work here.

and thanks to Silvia for keeping it moving forward.

glenn goldstein
vice president, media technology strategy
Tel: (212) 846-3210
Email: glenn.goldstein@viacom.com






On 3/19/13 5:32 PM, "David Singer" <singer@apple.com> wrote:

>Hi group, 
>
>
>Two transitions:
>
>1.  Ian has expressed a desire to step-down as editor, and Silvia has
>indicated a willingness to take over the role.  I hope everyone is with
>me in -- 
>
>  1a.  Thanking Ian profusely for having started the VTT effort and
>shaped and edited it thus far. It's really important.
>
>  1b.  Thanking Silvia for volunteering to step up.
>
>If you have any concerns, alternative candidates, or the like, about this
>transition, please communicate with me and I'll weigh them and try to
>address them.  I think Silvia will do a fine job, and her link to the
>HTML5 effort will help also.
>
>
>2.  We're getting close to a specification which looks pretty stable, and
>is 'feature complete' and implemented enough that we think we might have
>teased out the more obvious gotchas.  Various people in the industry
>would like a 'stable reference' in addition to the cutting-edge draft.
>The community group process has a tool for this, called the 'Final Spec.
>Agreement (FSA)' (see <http://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/>,
>which is actually the process document).  Signing this gives us both a
>stable reference at a stable URL, and also IPR commitments from those who
>sign.
>
>I think it would be good to do an FSA fairly soon.  If members of the
>group could look at the process and the FSA with a view to understanding
>it, and being prepared to sign, that would be great.
>
>Thanks, and onwards to ever better accessibility!
>
>David Singer
>Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 19 March 2013 22:23:40 UTC