Re: Submitting the current editor's draft to CR

On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 2:09:11 PM CEST Bert Bos wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 12:13:38 PM CEST Bert Bos wrote:
> > On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 3:30:01 AM CEST Roy T. Fielding 
wrote:
> > > > On Sep 5, 2017, at 4:15 PM, Matthias Schunter (Intel
> > > > Corporation)
> > > > <mts-std@schunter.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Dear TPWG,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > we once again reached a major milestone.
> > > > 
> > > > The current draft has been under review for some weeks and I
> > > > have
> > > > not
> > > > received any objections and some endorsements.
> > > > 
> > > > We now reached consensus to submit to CR and expose our current
> > > > draft to public scrutiny.
> > > > 
> > > > Roy: Could you produce a snapshot for submission?
> > > 
> > > Done at
> > > 
> > >   https://w3c.github.io/dnt/drafts/CRc-tracking-dnt.html
> > > 
> > > based on a theoretical publication date of 07-Sep-2017.  However,
> > > see
> > > 
> > >   https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#revised-cr
> > 
> > 7 September is indeed not possible. :-) But we (or I) can change the
> > date later, as long as we have a document with the right content.
> > 
> > I'll start the transition process.
> > 
> > Thanks, Roy!
> 
> B.t.w., do we have a human-readable summary of the important changes
> since 2015 somewhere? The mechanical diff and the Github history do
> not distinguish between simple editorial changes and new features.

And one other thing: The bibliographic reference for WebIDL is to the 
REC of 15 December 2016, but the URL is that of the editors' draft. Is 
that a mistake, or is there something in the editors' draft that is 
missing in the REC? (In that case we may have a problem: A specs should 
not rely on specs that are much more unstable than itself.)



Bert
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