Plan for XML Base PER [was: XML Core WG Status and Open Actions as of 2006 October 16]

Sounds fine to me (thanks for checking, Henry).

Richard, unless you have objections to this plan,
please proceed accordingly.

paul 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 2006 October 18 09:52
> To: Grosso, Paul
> Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: XML Core WG Status and Open Actions as of 2006 October 16
> 
> Grosso, Paul writes:
> 
> > ACTION to Henry:  Check into our options here for doing
> > a WD of a PER [of XML Base].
> 
> I have discussed this with the relevant Policy wonks, and the
> consensus is that that would be a Bad Idea, as it would provoke Patent
> Policy hassles.  The proposed alternative is to publish a public
> Editor's Draft, linked from the errata page as a sort of omnibus draft
> erratum, with a SoTD saying something along the lines of
> 
>   This is a public Editor's Draft, published to encourage review of
>   the proposed restructuring of this document.  Since the changes are
>   in the nature of corrections for errata, after public review and
>   possible further modifications in light of comments received, the
>   group expects to request publication as a PER.
> 
> ht

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