Re: Ian Jacobs comments [Was: New draft - please review]

Ian,
The text proposed  for 7.1 implements the text that closed a prior issue (83) and the changes you suggest would reopen that issue w/o adding anything.

My reading of 7.2.4 is a requirement not "feasibility".

Fir 7.4.1 I had suggested a different set of changes in an earlier message; e.g., use "Revising a CR" rather than "Revised CR" to avoid the apparent creation of a new state.
Steve Z

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-----Original message-----
From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
To: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: "public-w3process@w3.org" <public-w3process@w3.org>
Sent: Fri, Feb 14, 2014 21:27:20 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: Ian Jacobs comments [Was: New draft - please review]


On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:00 PM, "Charles McCathie Nevile" <chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote:

> With one exception, I have addressed all these comments (and the exception I expect to address later tonight).

Thanks, Charles. Notes inline.

Ian

>
>> - 7.1: "Individual Working Groups and Interest Groups may adopt
>>  additional processes for developing publications, so long as they do
>>  not conflict with the requirements in this chapter."
>>
>>  Proposed editorial change: "Different Working Groups and Interest
>>  Groups typically evolve different internal processes for developing
>>  documents. Such processes MUST NOT conflict with the requirements in
>>  this chapter."
>>
>>  I think the word "Additional" does not quite capture what I think
>>  you are referring to: operational details (which may very by group).
>
> Other processes are in addition to the base requirements of the process which cannot be broken. I had't used MUST because this chapter doesn't cover charters and working groups - that's a different part of Process that was ruled out of scope for this round of updates.
>
> I therefore oppose this change. Feel free to raise an issue.

I understand your point and agree the requirement should not appear in this section. Counter proposal:

     "Different Working Groups and Interest  Groups typically evolve different internal processes for developing
     documents; these complement but do not override the requirements in this chapter."

    (or, "these augment but do not override")


>> - 7.2.4:
>> 1) "to ensure that independent interoperable implementations of each
>>  feature of the specification will be realized." Suggest s/will/can/
>
> That is a significant change that I oppose. The point is not that it is possible to make interoperability, but that the specification is sufficiently clear that this is what *will* happen.

I don't object to "will," but I think "can" reflects the "feasibility" goal better than will here.

>
> This is part of the rationale for saying "2 interoperable implementations" is a rule of thumb that suggests we're on the right track, not a statement of what the world is actually looking for in a standard, and therefore providing 7.2.4 instead of that rough rule.


>> - 7.4.1: Suggest deleting this section and simply incorporating
>>  what's needed in 7.4.
>
> I disagree. This section was added because nobody could work out what was required (because it is unclear).

What I had in mind was to say, for example where it says in next steps "Return to CR" something like:

 "If there are any substantive changes made to a Candidate Recommendation other than to remove features explicitly identified as "at risk", this is the required next state."

And then, looking back at the entrance criteria for 7.4, they all pretty much still apply for a revised CR, so can't we just reuse them as-is?

>> - 7.4: "The Director must announce the publication of a Candidate
>>  Recommendation to other W3C groups and to the public, and must begin
>>  an Advisory Committee Review of the specification on publication."
>>
>>  Suggest deleting "on publication" as unnecessary (and possibly
>>  over-constraining).
>
> It is a rational requirement. I don't think it is *over*-constraining to mention when the review begins, and I don't see a better alternative.

My point is that the beginning of the sentence says "must announce the publication". So now we know there has been a publication. The sentence then adds "and must begin an AC review". So saying "on publication" is unnecessary since you already referred to the
publication event.

>> - 7.9 Rescinding a W3C Recommendation
>>
>>  I still believe this section is confusing. See my suggested changes
>>  from December:
>>  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2013Dec/0043.html

>
> The current approach was resolved by the TF as ISSUE-78 https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/78
>
> If you think we should make further changes, please reopen that issue.

Noted.


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