- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:26:16 -0500
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- CC: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, wai-liaison@w3.org, janina@rednote.net
Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) wrote: > > Sam Ruby wrote: > > > The co-chairs (Chris Wilson and myself) made a decision to publish based > > on our assessment of the input received by the working group over a > > period of several weeks and a number of phone calls. If you have input > > on any or all of Chris's explicit request on the mailing list, the > > minutes from the phone calls, or the issue in the tracker itself could > > have been more clear on the matter, I would be glad to hear it. Or if > > you know of some input that the chairs did not give proper attention to, > > please cite it. > > It is not possible to know if there was any "input [to which] the chairs > did not give proper attention", since we (the WG) do not have access to > the workings of the co-Chairmen's minds. My point (and I do not wish > to drag this matter out) is that I believe that, following the cessation > of active discussion on 30th ult., the co-Chairmen should have reported > to the WG that they had considered all points raised so far, and that, > in their opinion, there were no outstanding objections to publication. > They should then have gone on to say that they proposed publishing the > current draft of the specification as a WD on <date> and asking if there > were any objections to this. This simply did not occur, and the > publication > therefore took place without the informed consent of this WG. Access to the co-Chair's minds is not required. The chairs are available via e-mail on this very list, on IRC intermittently (and guaranteed at least once a week), and via phone. The minutes from the phone conversations are made available in raw form immediately via the IRC minutes, and in a cleaned up form shortly thereafter. Re "This simply did not occur", I continue to believe that the agenda and Chris's clarification were clear requests for objections: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jan/0289.html > Philip TAYLOR - Sam Ruby
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