- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:54:09 -0500
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org, Stuart Williams <skw@hp.com>, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:29, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Only the document can speak for the document. Right; so please quote it. > I have been attacked before for seeming to speaking for the group. > So I speak for myself -- but hope to help people understand the > document. The time for speaking for yourself has come and gone; you agreed to go to last call; that's largely an agreement to let the document speak for itself, no? > Maybe I should say "my understanding of what the document means is" No; just quote from the document. Or if you must, say "I suggest we change it to say...". > When Norm says """The notion of "resources" and "information resources" > is, from my > perspective, a compromise designed to allow two world views to achieve > consensus.""" that suggets to me that he feels that the two world > views are incompatible and the document actually ducks the issue (like > the NS document's famous "not a goal") Yes, I'm afraid so. > I would like to feel that the TAG in fact have a definition which we > can speak to, but apparently this is not the case and I have no way of > getting there. Well, perhaps no easy way... > Tim -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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