Re: XHTML Access module CR exit criteria

Oh my goodness.... I am losing my mind.  I will fix the draft this 
morning and we can proceed to last call at once.

Roland Merrick wrote:
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> Greetings Shane, I think that the reason we have not discussed CR Exit 
> Criteria for  XHTML Access module is that we have not been through 
> Last Call yet. Our resolution last week [1] was to proceeed to Last Call.
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/2008/05/14-xhtml-minutes#item06
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> Regards, Roland
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> *Shane McCarron <shane@aptest.com>*
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> I have completed incorporating the edits from the UAWG, and am now
> preparing a draft for a CR transition call as per the resolution at our
> meeting on Wednesday (I will push an editor's draft shortly via
> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Drafts#xhtml-access).  However, it occurred to
> me that we have never discussed exit criteria for this module
> specifically.  As I see if, there are two ways we can go:
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>   1. We decide that this module is just a component, and like @role has
>      no tangible use when it is free standing.  As a result, the CR
>      exit criteria could be the use of the module in some markup
>      language definitions to demonstrate that the implementation(s) of
>      the module work within the modularization framework.
>   2. We decide that since this module actually mandates some behavior
>      when it is used, the exit criteria should be that some user agents
>      implement that behavior in a conforming way (either natively or
>      through a plug in).
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> Obviously, the first gets us through CR more quickly. The second might
> be more appropriate since there are behaviors we require (change of
> focus, actuation or not, user agent and user override of key mappings).
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> I plan to produce an example markup language using the module (and
> xhtml-role) so that we can write and validate sample documents.  I think
> this action would satisfy condition 1 above.  For 2, I would need
> someone to help with creation of an implementation - I am pretty
> confident it could be implemented via scripting in the more flexible
> current user agents, but I just dont have the cycles right now.
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> Thoughts???
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Shane P. McCarron                          Phone: +1 763 786-8160 x120
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