- From: Mary Ellen Zurko <Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 18:45:48 -0400
- To: "Thomas Roessler <tlr" <tlr@w3.org>
- Cc: public-wsc-wg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <OF798FA2FB.D9F23C89-ON852572D6.007CF2A6-852572D6.007D0D38@LocalDomain>
> > Since this Note discusses the assumptions, goals, and processes > > the working group will use to develop its recommendations, the > > intended audience is similiar to that of the charter of the > > working group; working group members, the W3C community, > > developers of web user agents, web content providers (server > > administrators), and parties interested and engaged in what the > > Web Security Context working group's plans and directions are. > > I'm fine with the text up to this point. > > > It is explicitly not targeted at the presumed beneficiaries of > > the group's work, the users of the web, and it is not expected > > that an average user would be able to read this document and > > understand it. > > This is pretty strong wording. One of the points of doing use case > work is to enable discussions on a somewhat higher level that > requires less technical understanding than real participation in the > group would necessitate. > > That said, I also agree that an average user won't be likely to > understand the note, and that we don't aim for that. > > I'd probably just strike that paragraph. I'd prefer not to; that's the paragraph that gets to the exact question two reviewers have asked - are regular users supposed to read and understand this. So I would prefer language that addresses that accurately, as opposed to silence. Mez
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