- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:45:13 -0400
- To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
- CC: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
OK, so with foot firmly in mouth I notice that the permissions on [2] were never bumped to public when we put them out for review. I've asked the staff contact to do it ASAP. Noah On 6/16/2011 11:34 AM, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > 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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