Re: Call for comments: New charter for WebRTC Working Group

* Jim Barnett wrote:
>It's important to remember that completing a W3C specification requires 
>dealing with _all_ comments we receive, from within and without the 
>W3C.  Dealing with a comment requires either that the commenter accept 
>our response to the comment or that we go through some complicated - and 
>time consuming - W3C procedures to handle unreconciled differences.
>
>The upshot of this is that a major determinant of our schedule is 
>outside of our control, namely how many people comment and how stubborn 
>they are.

That doesn't really describe W3C practise as I have known it since 1999.
Sure, if a group develops a proposal detached from the larger community
and submits a poor-quality document for review assuming it's perfect, it
might take longer than expected to fix it, but that is under the group's
control.
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