Re: Timeline for TPE Last Call and Update of Acknowledgements

Hi Ninja, WG members,

I wish to second David's request to extend the window for public 
comments.

Regards,
Rob

David Wainberg schreef op 2014-03-24 16:05:
> Hi Ninja, and WG members,
> 
>  The WG must give more than 30 days for public comments. Giving only
> 30 days would be sending a message that you don't really want
> feedback.
> 
>  For companies, especially smaller companies, who will be affected by
> this to give comments, they will have to:
> 
>  * first learn of the LC document and the comment period;
>   * then read and understand a long and complex document, without the
> benefit of having participated in our discussion for the past two
> years;
> 
>  * then, technical, policy, and legal people will have to work
> together to understand their challenges for implementation or to
> determine areas of the spec that they do not understand;
> 
>  * in most cases they will then have to present this understanding to
> executives and get a consensus position for the company; and
>   * finally, they then need to prepare this feedback into public
> comments
> 
> For very many companies, this will take in excess of only 4 weeks. It
> can often take a week or two just to find a meeting time that works
> for all required attendees. We cannot expect them to drop their other
> work to turn around comments on this very complex issue in such a
> short time. If we are serious about taking feedback, and this is not
> merely a pro forma exercise, I ask that we please extend the comment
> period to 90 days. That is the minimum reasonable amount of time for
> most smaller companies to be able to provide feedback.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> David
> 
> On 2014-03-21 8:21 PM, Ninja Marnau wrote:
> 
>> Dear WG members,
>> 
>> we are closing in on TPE Last Call. This does not mean that our
>> work is done but rather that we have a document, which is in a
>> stage, where we, as a Working Group, think we have satisfied the
>> relevant technical requirements and want to present it to the public
>> and ask for technical reviews from stakeholders and experts. [1]
>> 
>> Thank you all for the great work, your time and patience that you
>> contributed to this document!
>> 
>> We plan for the Editors, Roy and David, to walk the group through
>> the Last Call ready version of the document on the call on March 26.
>> You will have one more week after this call to ask questions and
>> propose last editorial changes. So please prepare to provide your
>> editorial feedback before the WG call on April 2nd at the latest.
>> Please also keep in mind that editorial changes are only those, for
>> which someone could reasonably expect that making the changes would
>> not invalidate an individual's review or implementation experience.
>> 
>> From April 3 to April 16 the Co-Chairs will ask the Working Group
>> to make the decision for advancement of the document to Last Call.
>> If there are SUBSTANTIATED TECHNICAL OBJECTIONS against the Last
>> Call advancement, you can raise them during this timeframe by
>> sending an email to the mailing list. We hope to announce the
>> successful advancement to Last Call on April 17.
>> 
>> The Last Call announcement will be followed by a 30 days period, in
>> which the Working Group asks for external technical reviews (until
>> May 16). These technical reviews will be the basis for our further
>> work on TPE.
>> 
>> In order to update the document before Last Call I would also like
>> to ask you to review the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS [2]. If you have
>> contributed to TPE but are not listed, please let us know.
>> 
>> Ninja
>> 
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#last-call
>> [1]
>> 
>> [2]
>> 
> http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/tracking-dnt.html#acknowledgements
>> [2]
> 
> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#last-call
> [2]
> http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/tracking-dnt.html#acknowledgements

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