- From: Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:04:02 -0400
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: Frederik Braun <fbraun@mozilla.com>, Web Application Security Working Group <public-webappsec@w3.org>
On 04/21/2016 11:56 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org> wrote: >> 2) All W3C Recs needs to follow the normative reference policy, >> including assuring the stability of their references. > > You haven't really entertained my point though, that W3C Recs are not stable. The documents are stable, such that someone following a link there will get what was referred to by the editors who made the reference. I think we agree that it's a good thing for specifications to change when underlying implementations and architectures change. W3C does that by publishing drafts at dated references in /TR, persisting those documents, and by versioning specs when a Rec changes. --Wendy > > -- Wendy Seltzer -- wseltzer@w3.org +1.617.715.4883 (office) Policy Counsel and Domain Lead, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) https://wendy.seltzer.org/ +1.617.863.0613 (mobile)
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