Toward a last call for the Note

Those of you who have read the Process document thoroughly will have
noticed that there's no such thing in the Process as a Last Call [1]
for a Note.

However, the basic requirements from the Process can be readily
applied to a Working Draft that's supposed to become a Note, and I'd
suggest we do just that in discharging our chartered obligation.

The following steps are, in my view, on the critical path:

- An early announcement to chairs that we're planning a last call of
  the note.

- We need to check in with the groups in WAI, in order to avoid
  surprises from that quarter; in particular, it would be good to
  know whether Al Gilmann is satisfied with the responses he got.

- We've got some more internal comments that we probably want to
  address before moving to Last Call; ANEC's come to mind.

- We need to figure out who else's review we'd want, negotiate time
  lines with them, and run the current editor's draft by them before
  we formally last call -- once again in the interest of avoiding
  surprises.

That's all I can think of right now.  

(Note that this is orthogonal to the issues that Tyler brought up
about the use cases -- that's a question about whether we're there
yet, at all, and needs to be resolved within the group.)

1. http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr#last-call
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Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

Received on Monday, 25 June 2007 00:40:38 UTC