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

I'm interested in the list of use cases, but they are only examples. Please
remember Open Source Definition #6, No Discrimination Against Fields of
Endeavor:

    The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program 
    in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict 
    the program from being used in a business, or from being used for 
    genetic research.

You may want this New Standards Task Force to define use cases, but don't
limit your imagination in any way. All use cases are allowed if we follow an
open source model. There is simply no knowing in advance where a technology
will take us.

Incubation is for the early stages of a standard, when we know even less
about the future than we do in official W3C standards activities. We want to
encourage technology to evolve in a coordinated, cooperative and competitive
way, without limits on how it is used.

/Larry



> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-vision-newstd-request@w3.org [mailto:public-vision-newstd-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Michael Champion
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 11:59 AM
> To: Harry Halpin; public-vision-newstd@w3.org
> Subject: 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
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Feel free to go in and edit the wiki (and if you can't get write
> > access, please let me know).
> >
> >   _ Ian
> >
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2010/04/w3c-vision-public/wiki/Use_Cases
> > --
> > Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
> > Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
>

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