new information & the re-opening of issues in the HTML WG

Hi,

What criteria will be used to determine the "newness" of information
when considering reopening issues in the HTML WG? Allowing the
elaboration of information that, in truncated form, was available to the
working group at the time the original decision was made doesn't strike
me as a high enough bar.

In many cases, when the working group's escalation and decision process
has been fully exercised and a decision rendered, the issue in question
was contentious and divisive. If it isn't clear to the working group
that substantive new information is available *that would have caused
some participants to see things differently when the issue was first
decided*, I think the presumption should be that such issues don't get
reopened.

I'd like to see something like Sam's "three or more independent and
established participants" rule for reopening issues due to new
information. If we can't find three or more independent and established
participants who can say "I would have gone the other way on this issue,
had I known then what I know now," we shouldn't reopen the issue.


Thanks for your consideration,
Ted

-- 
Edward O'Connor
eoconnor@apple.com

Received on Thursday, 24 February 2011 18:28:05 UTC