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

Hi Ian,
Does Rubberstamp/FastTrack encompass submissions by non members or is that 
a different use case? I'm not sure but it might be worth listing it 
separately and recognize that these use cases aren't mutually exclusive 
but can in fact be combined.
--
Arnaud  Le Hors - Program Director, Global Open Standards, IBM Open Source 
& Standards Policy




From:   Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
To:     Michael Champion <Michael.Champion@microsoft.com>
Cc:     Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>, "public-vision-newstd@w3.org" 
<public-vision-newstd@w3.org>
Date:   06/21/2010 12:54 PM
Subject:        Re: First pass at use cases for "new standards" task force
Sent by:        public-vision-newstd-request@w3.org




On 21 Jun 2010, at 1:59 PM, Michael Champion wrote:

> +1 to [FastTrack] ...

I have merged FastTrack and Rubberstamp. I like FastTrack as a title 
better. The difference seemed mostly to be "was at one time in W3C"

>
> 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 ...

The key to this use case is that the ontology is vertical; I've added 
"vertical" to the wiki. In that sense, it's closest to Profile.

To your point, though: This is an attempt to write down things we've 
heard. If it's possible to boil the list down to 3 (with some being 
variants, etc.) then they may tell us directly which three processes 
we need.

  - Ian

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>> 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).
>>
>>  _ 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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Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447