Re: Setting TAG Priorities - Next steps

Hi Eran:
Please keep us informed of new versions of the three drafts. This will 
keep the momentum going!
I think Metadata access is an important issue for the TAG to consider.
Please also let us know if there are architectural issues that you want 
the TAG's opinion on.
Sorry for the late response.
All the best, Ashok


Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
> We are working on one more round of revisions for the three drafts 
> with the goal to move them to last call based on feedback. Do you 
> think that will have any impact on setting the TAG’s agenda and 
> priorities?
>
> EHL
>
>
> On 4/8/09 11:19 AM, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org> wrote:
>
>
>     On 2009-03 -22, at 11:10, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
>         TAG members:
>
>         In an email just sent [1], I summarized the work we've done so
>         far toward
>         setting the TAG's long term agenda. We have a F2F scheduled
>         tentatively
>         for end of June: if we can make good progress refining our
>         priorities
>         between now and then, we'll have a much more effective F2F
>         agenda, and
>         there will be less need to spend time discussing priorities.
>         So, here are
>         my thoughts on next steps, along with a request for you to
>         help move this
>         discussion forward in the coming weeks:
>
>         First, it's clear that there is a balance to be struck between
>         top down
>         planning driven by unifying themes as identified at the F2F
>         [2] vs.
>         stepping in quickly and effectively on other high priority
>         matters that
>         need attention. I don't think we yet know what the right
>         balance is.
>         Also, we haven't >yet< shown that we can use the themes we
>         gathered at the
>         F2F to motivate specific work items with clear goals and
>         measures of
>         success. Even if the themes do prove effective, we'll need to
>         be nimble
>         about taking up other high priority work from time to time.
>         So, we need
>         to propose more specific activities under each theme, and to
>         prioritize
>         both the big themes and the specific activities.
>
>         Let's try in email in the coming weeks to make progress,
>         building on what
>         we did at the F2F. There are multiple threads we'll need to
>         pursue in
>         parallel, iterating until we have a set of particular
>         deliverables
>         organized by high priority themes, or else perhaps until the
>         point where
>         we decide that themes aren't serving us after all. Below my
>         signature are
>         a set of questions I think we should be discussing between now
>         and the
>         F2F.
>
>         I propose that we let this discussion go on as a background
>         activity for a
>         few weeks to see whether it proves fruitful. In the meantime,
>         we have
>         quite a few items left over from last week's agenda, as well
>         as one or two
>         new ones, and they look worthwhile to me. I'll be scheduling
>         those for
>         telcons on the 26th and the 2nd, while keeping an eye on this
>         discussion
>         of long term priorities. Thank you.
>
>         Thank you.
>
>         Noah
>
>         [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Mar/0138.html
>         [2]
>         http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/03/05-whiteboard-priorities.txt
>         [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/03/03-TAG-issue-status.html
>
>
>         SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR EMAIL DISCUSSION
>         -------------------------------------
>
>         * Of the 6 themes identified [2] at the F2F, and of the
>         particular
>         items listed under them, help us set priorities. Should we
>         focus on all 6
>         equally? Are the themes in fact useful in setting priorities?
>
>
>     My suggestion is that we focus on 4
>
>     - HTML TAG soup and versioning
>     Maybe new note to tell the story of how this works in HML5 using
>     ultra-liberal parsing?
>     (Separately get JAR's node on versioning in general out -- useful
>     IMHO but not for HTML5)
>
>     - Access to metadata
>     This is timely. We should make a finding which could be a part of
>     a new Arch Doc which
>     described how to get metadata using link headers etc. And we
>     should review the 3 drafts Noah points to.
>
>     - Naming
>     Get this finding done and wrapped up and off the agenda.
>
>     - Semantic web a la awwsw
>
>     We track two:
>
>     - Security, which we feel is important but do not have in-group
>     expertise really.
>
>     - Mobile, looking or issues in mobile which are different from
>     normal web arch.
>
>     Tim
>
>

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