- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:52:02 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Charles Pritchard <chuck@visc.us>
- cc: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Charles Pritchard wrote: > On 12/6/2010 1:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Arthur Barstow wrote: > > > Since Hixie is active on HTML, perhaps someone else is willing to pick > > > one of these LCs and to review the issues, bugs, diffs, etc. and propose > > > the next step . Any volunteers? > > I am responding to feedback on these specs, just not on the schedule I > > described earlier this year. (For instance, I just committed a change to > > Web Storage.) My lack of urgency on getting things to CR stems primarily > > from my disillusionment with the entire process; Web specs should just be > > continuously maintained, having snapshots on the TR/ page seems to have > > only one positive side-effect, and that's the effect on the patent policy. > > Other than that it just provides a distraction that implementors and > > authors can end up referencing instead of the more up-to-date and > > continually maintained draft. > > > > The drafts are actively maintained, and feedback is tracked and addressed. > > It's just not done with the goal of reaching the TR/ page, but rather with > > the goal of fostering interoperable implementations. > > Static section numbers, and patent policy are quite important to the > lawyer crowd. > > I agree, it's just one positive side-effect, but it's a big one. If anyone wants to just take the draft and regularly publish a REC snapshot of it for patent policy purposes, that's fine by me, provided the snapshot is suitably marked as being a snapshot for that purpose and doesn't profess to being the latest version. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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