Title of the HTML5 document

(not sent to the list)

With regard to "what the document itself is named", could you
please clarify:

Is it your position that discussion of the title is out of scope
and not "something that needs to be resolved"? That what the
document is named is settled and should not be a discussion
topic?

Or that the current title is perfect, and that no other
title will do? 

Are you willing to suggest other titles that might be more
acceptable to the group, if my suggestions don't meet your
approval?


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The agenda for the May 21 meeting of the HTML working group[0]
included a proposed "Process for Proposals"[1], which said,
among other things:

> 3) The issue about what the document itself is named (raised by Roy 
> Fielding[2]) is also something that needs to be resolved.

Discussing [2], I suggested some reasons why one might prefer one
title over another, factors affecting the title of this document,
suggested an alternative title, and gave an example of a document
that might be more consistent with the current title.

In reply, I was told that while I was entitled to express
my opinion, I wasn't entitled to have that opinion "expressed
in the document title"[3] (i.e., that the opinion had no
standing?),  that suggesting the title was inappropriate
was a personal affront, that the title had already been decided
by a working group vote, and so forth.


[0] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009May/0174.html
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009May/0161.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Nov/0430.html
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009May/0237.html


Is this or is this not a topic that "needs to be resolved"?

Regards,

Larry
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Received on Sunday, 24 May 2009 18:47:31 UTC