Re: Wrong information given at the WG Call yesterday

> On 25 Apr 2024, at 18:30, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 11:43 AM Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>>> Good to know that I'm not going insane (yet)...
>> 
>> Instead, I was the one going insane…
> 
> :) ... and I expect to be there by the time we hit Proposed Rec. :P
> 
>> Does that mean "no normative changes to the specification"? If so, all
>> of our specs will have suffered at least one normative change during
>> CR1 (which is expected).
>> 
>> No, I believe this means that there was no fundamental change in the direction of the specification. Say, we decide that the VCDM model should be (also) expressed in XML… that would be a new requirement.
> 
> Would changing the media type constitute a "fundamental change", or
> refactoring the Controller Document stuff into a new spec? I expect
> some of us might answer differently.

I do not think so. Let alone the fact, that in the CR review we anticipated that some change would come on this.

But, I presume, the issue of "fundamental" change will come up when we ask for a new CR Snapshot transition and, at the end of the day, it will be a judgement call of the reviewers.

> 
> Not a big deal right now, and as long as the Editors make sure that
> they are meticulous about tracking the sorts of changes we're making,
> it'll make it easier to do the Transition Request even if we can't do
> the automatic one. We can just plan for the worst case scenario and
> try to minimize the CRs that we do.

+1

> 
> IOW, "Let's not go into a CR2 on any document if we don't feel that we
> are completely, 100% done with it?" <-- should that be our strategy?

That sounds about right to me.

Ivan


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