- From: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 20:17:24 +0500
- To: "public-w3process@w3.org" <public-w3process@w3.org>
Hi,
in general, W3C Recommendations live forever as Recommendations. There is
a process to rescind them, but there is no process to supersede them.
Formally a new version of a spec at W3C doesn't have any way to replace an
older one, which doesn't really make sense.
I think it would be useful to have such a process. I believe there are
versioned specifications that don't actually supersede the previous
version, such as some CSS modules, where the two versions live happily
side-by-side. (What about HTML 3.2? Do people use it? Is that a good idea?
Maybe we just need a spec for "HTML for email clients"...)
If we had such a process, what would we use it on? Should we just be more
active about rescinding recommendations?
cheers
Chaals
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Received on Wednesday, 29 May 2013 18:18:03 UTC