Re: Formal Objection: publication of XForms 1.1 as LCWD

Bjoern:


In your 'formal objection'[1], you reference this note[2], in which you 
further reference comments[3] you sent (to tmichel@w3.org, and cc'd to 
www-archive@w3.org) in 2003 regarding the XForms 1.0 test suite. The 
XForms Working Group wishes to respond to the concerns you've referenced, 
including this one, which seems to have 'slipped through the cracks', 
assumedly because it was not sent to a mailing list monitored by the 
group.

You will notice that the XForms 1.0 test suite[4] has been completely 
revamped. The technical concerns, all of which were valid, raised in your 
2003 note have all been addressed, and none of the erroneous documents to 
which you refer can any longer be accessed via any hyperlink from 
elsewhere on the public W3C XForms pages.

Moreover, we are in fact actively maintaining the new test suite, and 
welcome any further input that would help us improve it. Sending any such 
feedback to the www-forms mailing list will help ensure that we will see 
and be able to respond to/implement suggestions for the test suite. It is 
highly unlikely that notes addressed as[3] had been -- only to 
tmichel@w3.org, and cc'd to www-archive@w3.org -- will come to the 
attention of the working group.


[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2007Apr/0019.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2004Nov/0050.html
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2003Aug/0000.html 
[4] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/Test/


Thank you,
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Jan Joseph Kratky
W3C XForms Working Group Member
IBM Emerging Software Standards
(919) 254-7701 T/L 444-7701
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