Re: Call for Consensus to publish WebVTT as a Candidate Recommendation

I think maybe HTML formatting bled an old URL through; I re-sent as plain text…hope that fixes it.

> On Mar 30, 2018, at 9:16 , Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> If you look at the source of your original email, you will see:
> 
> <https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/silviapfeiffer/=
> webvtt-spec/blob/f8da4f27205ed2c11b7dedbf46d91b363eaafe9b/archives/2018-04-=
> 15/Overview.html <https://w3c.github.io/ttml2/index.html>>
> 
> Anyway... just trying to help.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -- Pierre
> 
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:15 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
>> Not for me.  And reading the link it’s clearly in the VTT repo…
>> 
>> "Abstract
>> 
>> This specification defines WebVTT, the Web Video Text Tracks format. Its main use is for marking up external text track resources in connection with the HTML <track> element. WebVTT files provide captions or subtitles for video content, and also text video descriptions [MAUR], chapters for content navigation, and more generally any form of metadata that is time-aligned with audio or video content."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 30, 2018, at 9:13 , Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> <https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/silviapfeiffer/webvtt-spec/blob/f8da4f27205ed2c11b7dedbf46d91b363eaafe9b/archives/2018-04-15/Overview.html>
>>> 
>>> The link resolves to TTML2.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> -- Pierre
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:07 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>> 
>>>> following this week's call giving conceptual approval pending the
>>>> preparation of the CR document, and the preparation by Thierry and Silvia of
>>>> the CR draft at
>>>> <https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/silviapfeiffer/webvtt-spec/blob/f8da4f27205ed2c11b7dedbf46d91b363eaafe9b/archives/2018-04-15/Overview.html>
>>>> is now ready for us to request transition to Candidate Recommendation: I
>>>> think that the obvious typo in “Diff from previous” has been or will
>>>> imminently be fixed. This email is a call for consensus to make the
>>>> transition based on this version of the document; barring any objections
>>>> within the WG's Decision Policy period of 10 working days as defined in the
>>>> Charter, I will ask for this transition request to be made.
>>>> 
>>>> (Thierry/Silvia, if there is a better link, let us know)
>>>> 
>>>> For transition request purposes, assuming no objections, I will record this
>>>> as a resolution in the minutes of the next call.
>>>> 
>>>> Please review the document and if possible confirm that you agree with this
>>>> resolution; silence will be taken as acceptance, but an explicit approval
>>>> would be much appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> If you spot any problems please raise issues as normal on the GitHub
>>>> repository. We can make minor editorial fixes such as typo fixes any time.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks to everyone who contributed to the push to get to this state over the
>>>> last few months: this represents a lot of hard work.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> kind regards,
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> David Singer
>> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>> 

David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Friday, 30 March 2018 16:22:44 UTC