Re: Request for Decision: Design Principles

On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Murray Maloney wrote:

> At 02:22 PM 4/20/2007 -0400, David Dailey wrote:
>
>
>> This made me wonder something:
>>
>> Maciej has written http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/ 
>> 2007Apr/0911.html concerning the proposed principles that
>>
>> >You can think of them as self-imposed amendments to the charter, so
>> >that we don't have to pick through the often vague language of the
>> >charter for justification. Since they are self-imposed, they are  
>> also
>> >less difficult to add or remove in response to feedback. All it  
>> takes
>> >is a decision of the group, not the full re-chartering process which
>> >is slow and disruptive.
>>
>> Has a W3C group ever modified its own charter in this way? If so  
>> was it done by majority rule?
>
> I am not sure Maciej was being literal or not, but I did not  
> interpret his suggestion
> as being an actual amendment to the charter as much as a virtual  
> amendment.
> The XML Schema WG adopted a set of design principles as did the XML  
> WG.

I was not being literal. I agree that we do not want to open a re- 
chartering rathole and should follow the precedent of other groups.

Regards,
Maciej

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