Re: Collection of questions

Stephen Crawley wrote:
> So I think the most practical solution would be to set up an informal
> working group (independent of W3C) to come up with consensus answers
> and document them.  A Wiki-based group sounds a reasonable approach. 
> (We might be able to host an Annotea Wiki on "http://metadata.net"
> ... I need to check out some issues.)

That would be great, Stephen.

> It remains to be seen if there are enough interested people with the
> skills and dedication to come up with a decent Annotea specification.
> In my experience (MOF, XMI), writing a decent specification /
> standard is hard work, and requires real dedication, discipline and
> willingness to compromise.  So lets not get too ambitious just yet.

Well, we can start and see what happens. On the other side, I don't like 
the idea of some of us dedicating much time for nothing. If it is a 
small amount of work to set up a Wiki, we should do that and use it to 
check whether it is worth to start work on a specification.

Received on Monday, 6 July 2009 11:26:29 UTC