- 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
Received on Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:45:58 UTC