RE: First pass at use cases for "new standards" task force

+1 to [FastTrack] ... 

I'm not sure if [Competition] is a use case or just a possible attribute of any of the use cases.

Likewise, isn't [Ontology] just one of the types of outputs that could come out of any of the use cases?  People might want to develop a web standard ontology, develop one that competes with a W3C standard, brainstorm about a possible new ontology, create a profile of an existing ontology, rubberstamp or fast track a de facto standard one ...



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From: public-vision-newstd-request@w3.org [mailto:public-vision-newstd-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Harry Halpin
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 11:49 AM
To: public-vision-newstd@w3.org
Subject: Re: First pass at use cases for "new standards" task force

> Hi all,
>
> I've written down seven use cases [1]:
>
> 	* [Core] Develop a new Web standard
> 	* [Ontology] Develop an industry-specific ontology
> 	* [Competition] Develop a competing specification
> 	* [Brainstorm] Experiment (new format or extension)
> 	* [Profile] Create a profile of one or more specifications
> 	* [Sunset] Revise a W3C Recommendation without a Working Group
> 	* [Rubberstamp] Reset expectations between W3C Recommendation and de 
> facto standard
>
> I welcome your comments on the list. What's missing? Are there any you 
> think should be "out of scope" for this task force?

Overall, great starting work Ian!

I think one of the one's that we need to add is:

[FastTrack] Fast-track an already existing de-facto standard to being a W3C Recommendation

Some group of people or organization have produced a specification (possibly with or without a degree of legal protection) that has become widely deployed within the industry. However, they would like their standard to become a W3C Recommendation, possibly because but not necessarily because they would like to be even more well-known and have stronger IPR, would like to see integration with other communities and standards. They strongly feel they do not want to start with scratch. One requirement may be working with a large group of people not normally affiliated with the W3C or familiar with W3C Process, and having more than one organization managing the standards.

Example: Some of the work in the Social Web space could follow this trajectory, as does HTML5.



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> Feel free to go in and edit the wiki (and if you can't get write 
> access, please let me know).
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>   _ Ian
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2010/04/w3c-vision-public/wiki/Use_Cases
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