- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 23:00:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- cc: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
If there are two contradictory Recommendations then as I understand the process there is currently no way to say that the first is no longer recommended practise. Although I am happy to be wrong. I guess the [process question is more a W3C internal one, although whether we want to follow it up is a working group issue... Charles McCN Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > If the working group changes the requirements, for example by publishing WCAG > 1.1 or 2.0 or something, then one of the things we could do is explicitly > request that WCAG 1.0 be moved from Recommendation Status to former > recommendation or obsolete recommendation or something. > There curently isn't > such a thing in the process of W3C, so it would need to be approved by the > Advisory Council/Committee (I don't recall what they are at the minute - > basically the members) but if it is a good idea then we have a duty to ask > for it anyway. Then On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Ian Jacobs wrote: I don't agree. There's no need to require new process. You just tell the AC during the review that document A will obsolete document B and they agree to that or they done. - Ian -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI 21 Mitchell Street, Footscray, VIC 3011, Australia
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