- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:54:53 +0200
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com>, WebID Incubator Group WG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>
On 20 October 2011 13:48, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 October 2011 10:57, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As we are nearing the end of the term of the XG (it is in 3 months or so) we need to ask how we shall continue: a community group or a Full Working group. We have something that is quite close to a standard, but we won't be able to clean it up completely in the time left for the group I think. >> >> In any case this is a process that is in constant evolution, and that will evolve more as we get to have people on board that wish to make larger deployments. > > Are both possible? Community Group is easy; if a few people suggest a not-obviously-insane, over-broad or overlapping group, it should go through. > Start with a community group then transition to WG if/when ready? WGs involve a commitment of W3C staff time, effort and attention; plus associated coordination costs for all other related groups. They are not so easily created. A CG can be a stepping stone to a WG, though. A 3rd option might be to submit a proposal to continue this XG for n more months, to finish up an initial spec without the disruption of migrating to a CG. I'm not sure how W3C team would react, but it sounds plausible to me (e.g. a 3-6 month extension). Dan
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