- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:57:26 +0200
- To: "Aryeh Gregor" <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>, "Karl Dubost" <karld@opera.com>
- Cc: "public-webapps Group WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:06:57 +0200, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote: > Le 11 juil. 2011 à 12:58, Aryeh Gregor a écrit : >> The standards we're discussing are not coercive. > > Just a minor semantics point. Web Standards are never coercive. > They might be used by legal framework aw as a reference point for a > certification process. Actually, the question is important because some standards *are* used by legal frameworks in this way, and even more important because many are used in this way in contracting processes. In both cases this can affect many people's livelihood, so understanding the impacts of what we do is probably worth the effort. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com
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