Re: Extensibility reviews?

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> On Aug 12, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:
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>> On 08/12/2014 05:04 PM, Mark Watson wrote:
>> I made some explicit suggestions as to extensibility points here:
>> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25618#c9
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>> But then the discussion got pulled into the registry thing again. I
>> think (hope) we've just about resolved that - or at least reduced
>> it to a more narrow open issue - so we could get back to the
>> concrete discussion of needed extensibility points.
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> I am going to note it's common sense that we everyone submit bugs and
> reviews so there's no real reason to repeat common sense.
>
> However, if no-one gives the spec a thorough review we are *not*
> likely to get out of Last Call. I wanted to people to be aware of that
> and try to push on this in the next week rather than being completely
> consumed by the non-NIST ECC Curve debate, given that extensibility of
> the spec is more of blocking issue than the current non-NIST ECC Curve
> insofar as that would hold up extension specs.
>
> So Mark, if you could go through or anyone who is planning
> extensibility and give Ryan concrete suggestions, I'd be very grateful.

I thought I had given concrete suggestions in my comment linked above
- that's why I pointed to it. I can elaborate on those next week - or
if there is in principle agreement, do the editing myself.

...Mark

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>   cheers,
>       harry
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>>
>> ...Mark
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>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> I think the idea of nominating "someone" to review is dangerous
>>> and not in line with the spirit of the W3C review.
>>>
>>> We need everyone to review AND file bugs for anything wonky they
>>> see. Just because we may or may not have a volunteer does not
>>> mean they will notice everything or things will be timely.
>>>
>>> So please, EVERYONE, review and file bugs. On Aug 12, 2014 5:57
>>> AM, "Harry Halpin" <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:
>> Although the great debate over whether non-NIST curves should be
>> part of the main spec continues, I think a very practical task that
>> will block us getting out of CR will regardless is the
>> extensibility issue.
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>> In particular, we need someone to go over the spec in detail to
>> look for extensibility points *in the text of the main spec*:
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25618
>>
>> Any volunteers?
>>
>> cheers, harry
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