Re: Call for Editor: URL spec

Ian,

Could be slightly more formal?
You are speaking of "hypocrisy" but this seems like a matter of politeness, right?
Or are you actually claiming that there's a license breach?

That there are different mechanisms at WHATWG and W3C is not really new.

Paul

Le 6 nov. 2012 à 02:42, Ian Hickson a écrit :

>>> In the meantime, W3C is copying Anne's work in several specs, to
>> 
>> It seems like W3C groups copying WHATWG's work has been ongoing for 
>> several years (so I think this is "old news", especially since, AFAIU, 
>> it is permissiable, perhaps even encouraged? via the WHATWG copyright) 
>> ;-).
> 
> In the past (and for some specs still today), it was done by the editor 
> (e.g. me), as dual-publication.
> 
> What's "new news" now is that the W3C does this without the editor's 
> participation, and more importantly, while simultaneously decrying the 
> evils of forking specifications, and with virtually no credit to the 
> person doing the actual work.
> 
> It's this hypocrisy that is new and notable.