Re: publishing FPWD issue (was Re: Thursday telcon & agenda)

I trust Dominique and Olivier for doing the right thing.

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002, Olivier Thereaux wrote:
> > * if we choose the "family" approach, we'll need authorizations from the
> > director each time and for each part (shortnames and all, see
> > publication rules [2]) 
> 
> each time, that is only for the first publication, not for the following
> ones.
>  
> > * if we choose the "family" approach, we may have trouble linking
> > through dated documents. No problem if we always link to (fragments of)
> > latest versions of the other documents. linking to (fragments of) dated
> > versions of other documents might be a bit painful.
> 
> That's certainly the main issue. And even if it is an issue, I strongly
> suggest not to link to the latest version of the documents, since we
> would lose a lot of controls of what the semantic of the given link
> would be over the time. When we cross-reference between a document at a
> date D, it's not very probable that this cross-reference will have the
> same meaning 2 or 3 drafts later.
>  
> > "Historically", working groups (CSS, DOM) have chosen the "family"
> > approach. What will we choose?
> 
> I think that publishing as separate documents (that is, the "family"
> approach) makes more sense, since they are quite different documents.
> The multipart approach does only work IMHO for parts of the same
> documents.
> 
> Dom
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