- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:28:25 -0500
- To: www-tag@w3.org
I have posted a new draft of the TAG's Self-Describing Web finding at [1]. Differences from the previous version are at [2]. I'm referring to this as an interim draft because it's been prepared mainly for discussion on tomorrow's TAG teleconference and for quick review next week, and I expect it will soon be replaced with a version reflecting guidance received in those reviews. A major review [3] of the previous draft [4] was done at the TAG's recent face to face meeting. This draft attempts to cover most but not all of the changes that were agreed at that time (some exceptions are listed below), including integration/adaptation of the handwritten suggestions provided by Tim Berners-Lee. As a reminder: we agreed at the F2F to try and get this finding published within the next few weeks, so that we'll avoid the overhead of having to bring a new round of TAG members up to speed on it. A couple of related action items (formal and informal) were assigned involving people other than me. Specifically:: * Action 208 [5] was for Stuart to work with me on the "attribution of libel" question. I think my redraft probably deals with this, but Stuart should take a look when I post it. * From the draft minutes of our F2F: Possible ACTION:, not actually assigned: Henry S if necessary to take whatever TimBL does on the machine/Client Tech issue and try to improve it and submit for review. I'd like to think that my adaptation of Tim's written comments comes close enough to resolving this, but it does stop short of really introducing the notion of "packages" of specifications for use by, e.g. clients. rather, it just mentions under the examples that the browsers build in support for URI, HTTP, etc. If we want to go further, then I'd welcome some guidance from Henry. The following are outstanding areas of concern that I know have not yet been completely resolved: * There was a suggestion to better align two of the examples, and Henry offered to help with preparing them. Assuming tomorrow's call goes well, and that he has time, I will pass the "write token" to him. * As agreed at the face to face meeting, Jonathan posted [6] specific suggestions for elementing use of the phrase "semantic web". Unfortunately, the reactions we've received range from ambivalent [7] to somewhat negative [8], and I'm not convinced the changes are on balance positive either. The new draft does not include any of Jonathan's suggested changes. We should discuss tomorrow. The other changes acted upon are too numerous to list explicitly here. I will leave it to TAG members to review the new draft and the diffs to determine whether their concerns have been adequately addressed. I think that, except as listed above, I've covered them all to my satisfaction, but in one or two cases (talking about packages of specifications), one could argue that I might have gone further. The agenda for tomorrows call will shortly be updated to point to this new material. Thank you. Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2009-01-07.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2007/10/htmldiff?doc1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2Ftag%2Fdoc%2FselfDescribingDocuments-2008-12-03.html&doc2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2Ftag%2Fdoc%2FselfDescribingDocuments-2009-01-07-diffbase.html [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2008/12/11-minutes.html#item02 [4] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2008-12-03.html [5] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/208 [6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Dec/0089.html [7] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Dec/0090.html [8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008Dec/0091.html -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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