Re: [MINUTES] VCWG Entity Recognition 2026-04-14

On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 9:08 AM <meetings@w3c-ccg.org> wrote:
> Renaming Specification Poll: The poll for renaming the specification indicated "Recognized Entities" as the leading choice, though a decision was deferred to allow more participants to vote, with the poll to be reopened and resent with a clearer end date.

As of this morning, we have 11 ballots in (which is roughly the size
of the Task Force). A Borda Count of the ballots (image attached, raw
ballots attached), shows how all of the selections have fared so far.

Unfortunately, I selected an Instant Run Off vote as the default
tallying strategy when I created the poll, which is exactly the wrong
thing to do for this sort of election (IRV is a poor tallying strategy
when you have lots of choices and a small number of voters). The more
appropriate tallying strategy for picking a name is to use a Borda
count (this is what we've used over the past decade to pick spec names
when we couldn't come to consensus on a name). In any case, Instant
Run Off, San Francisco Ranked Choice Vote, Borda, and Condorcet Borda
all resulted in the same name being picked (it wasn't close, there was
a clear ranking with a clear winner).

If you want to nerd out on vote tallying strategies, you can learn
more about it here:

https://opavote.com/methods/recommended

At this point, is there anyone in the Recognized Entities Task Force
that wants more time to vote? If so, how much more time do you need?

-- manu

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