- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:34:20 -0400
- To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
I've become aware that some members of the community are concerned about the fact that the subject of today's TAG discussion on RDFa and microdata is a note [1] that is in our member-only email archives. The TAG does the vast majority of its work "in public" on this list, and the draft minutes of our most recent discussion of RDFa and microdata are indeed public at [2]. During that discussion, we asked Jeni Tennison to prepare a first draft of what >might< become formal positions of the TAG on this matter. We occasionally put even such first drafts in public, but there is a downside: they look and feel like considered positions of the TAG, and particularly on matters of great controversy, we wind up with people holding us to positions that aren't necessarily ours, and indeed that may not have been well researched. So, when the TAG is considering taking a formal public position, or opening an issue against someone else's specification, it's often appropriate to first let all TAG members look at the proposal, and to refine it to the point where it at least represents the input of the TAG to the public discussion. That's what's going on here. We have a teleconference for technical discussion of this today, and it's my hope that the TAG will have something suitable for public consideration (or else a decision not to take a position) soon. Either way, I expect we'll move the discussion to www-tag very shortly. A reminder about the tag@w3.org list: it's like the chairs@w3.org list. All W3C members can see these lists, but the purpose of them is for discussion among the TAG or chairs, etc. Things we put here may include positions we are not prepared to defend, technical analyses that have not been seen by more than one TAG member, scheduling discussion about future TAG meetings etc. The www-tag@w3.org list is, of course, fully public and we welcome contributions from everyone. Again: the TAG takes its commitment to work in public very seriously. When we do take initial steps among ourselves, it is typically to be sure that we know what we want our initial public position to be, as is the case here. Thank you. Noah [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/tag/2011Jun/0021.html [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2011/06/08-minutes.html#item06
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