closing IRIEverywhere

 

I have ACTION-398 to prepare a plan for how the TAG can close
ISSUE-27 IRIEverywhere.

 

Based on Henry's summary from last April:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Apr/0081.html

 

  The intention is to issue a revision of [LEIRI] replacing

  its contents with a reference to [IRI-BIS] as soon as [IRI-BIS]

  becomes a Draft Standard.

 

 

and the IETF IRI working group now chartered to complete IRI-BIS,
whose charter explicitly calls for working with W3C:
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/iri/charters

 

I propose the following plan:

 

================== PROPOSED PLAN =======================

 

The staging of the replacement of stable references to pointers to a
document under revision needs to be handled carefully. [LEIRI] is only
a Note, while HTML5 is a new version of HTML being prepared for
recommendation track, so the plans for XML CORE and HTML are
different:

 

XML CORE should work in the following phases: 

 

1.  Develop a draft of what a replacement to [LEIRI] would look like,
given the current content of IRI-BIS. Coordinate with IRI-WG if any
changes are needed to IRI-BIS, and continue to track IRI-WG.

2.  Publish a new version of [LEIRI] as an updated NOTE with both the
current content and the proposed new content.

3.  When IRI-BIS is approved for standards track in IETF (either at
"Draft Standard" or restarted at "Proposed Standard" level), remove
the older content of [LEIRI] and leave the pointer to the new (stable)
IRI-BIS document.

 

HTML WG should follow the following phases:

 

1.  Confirm that a document, even with a normative reference to a work
in progress, can enter Candidate Recommendation state, and that
advancement of IRI-BIS to IETF standards track is not a 'blocking'
issue. (Otherwise the contingency plan in step 3 will need to be done
sooner.)

2.  Prepare a version of the HTML specification that references a
specific version of IRI-BIS, noting that the document is evolving. 

3.  When preparing HTML5 for Proposed Recommendation, update the
reference to IRI-BIS as needed: if the IETF IRI WG succeeds in
completing its work in time, that can be used as a stable
specification; otherwise, implement a contingency plan following the
LEIRI development plan above: create a Working Group Note that
describes a current reference to IRI-BIS, along with a copy or update
of the WEBADDR specification.

 

 

=========== END PROPOSED PLAN ===================