RE: administrivia: Candidate Recommendation and Last Working Draft

Because I want to be able to capture a snapshot of what we have as a draft to send to the director, then will produce CR if any changes are needed like title, date, etc. There is no formal name to what we have been calling WD04, 5, 6, 7 etc. either


From: John Fontana [mailto:jfontana@yubico.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 9:35 AM
To: =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com>
Cc: Anthony Nadalin <tonynad@microsoft.com>; W3C Web Authn WG <public-webauthn@w3.org>
Subject: Re: administrivia: Candidate Recommendation and Last Working Draft

Jeff,
You are correct. Let's make sure we change the heading on the call today.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:27 AM, =JeffH <Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com<mailto:Jeff.Hodges@kingsmountain.com>> wrote:
I am wondering why we have the new "Last Working Draft" milestone <https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/milestone/3<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fw3c%2Fwebauthn%2Fmilestone%2F3&data=04%7C01%7Ctonynad%40microsoft.com%7Cc3472416a3ff4f970d2308d5795176a7%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636548313150944208%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D%7C-1&sdata=EQV2uQF5rdqYihpc4KrFMxazd9wRm2KelXa3jNYMyLM%3D&reserved=0>> rather than just continuing to use the CR (Candidate Recommendation) milestone?

Note that the description for "Last Working Draft" links to a superseded (old) version of the W3C Process doc rather than the current Process Doc.

In the current W3C Process Doc <https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FConsortium%2FProcess%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ctonynad%40microsoft.com%7Cc3472416a3ff4f970d2308d5795176a7%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636548313150944208%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D%7C-1&sdata=yx1L60oBd9s44A0%2BCAVjUvQHxOJd67xe83%2FndohIA%2Bg%3D&reserved=0>> (of 1-Feb-2018), the section on Candidate Recommendation <https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#candidate-rec<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2018%2FProcess-20180201%2F%23candidate-rec&data=04%7C01%7Ctonynad%40microsoft.com%7Cc3472416a3ff4f970d2308d5795176a7%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636548313150944208%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D%7C-1&sdata=CP8coWfaYHB4z1TVfVMf4puAcQV2aAlQQw49AsIbjoc%3D&reserved=0>> states:

  "A Candidate Recommendation corresponds to a "Last Call Working Draft"
  as used in the W3C Patent Policy. Publishing a Candidate
  Recommendation triggers a Call for Exclusions, per section 4 of
  the W3C Patent Policy,..."

Thus, unless I am misunderstanding this (which is possible), CR maturity level now equates to what was formally known as "Last Call Working Draft".

Our description for CR milestone <https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/milestone/15<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fw3c%2Fwebauthn%2Fmilestone%2F15&data=04%7C01%7Ctonynad%40microsoft.com%7Cc3472416a3ff4f970d2308d5795176a7%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636548313150944208%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D%7C-1&sdata=%2BlIYZFn0WG7F%2Bs7eEOBQj4IcK6b8jWJAhdUbQ05hgqk%3D&reserved=0>> says...

  "Proposal for Candidate Recommendation Candidate maturity level."

..though it links to the same superseded Process doc -- I suggest we update that process link for the CR milestone and just use the CR milestone such that our milestones match the current process doc.  Plus update the CR milestone description to say..

  "Proposal for Candidate Recommendation Candidate maturity level
  (equivalent to Last Call Working Draft").
  See <https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FConsortium%2FProcess%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ctonynad%40microsoft.com%7Cc3472416a3ff4f970d2308d5795176a7%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636548313150944208%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D%7C-1&sdata=yx1L60oBd9s44A0%2BCAVjUvQHxOJd67xe83%2FndohIA%2Bg%3D&reserved=0>>"


hth,

=JeffH






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