- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:31:44 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 4/23/2012 6:27 PM, Larry Masinter wrote: > The charter does not mention "findings". No, but it says as the first mission of the TAG [1]: "to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary;" Note that it does not say "document community consensus". It also goes on to say: "The TAG will not just document what is widely accepted; it will also anticipate growth and fundamental interoperability problems" That seems pretty clearly to anticipate the need for the TAG to document ideas that are not yet widely accepted. Findings seem to me to be very much in that spirit. > Mark any 'finding' more than a year old as 'historical', and start with a clean slate. I think the TAG could do much more to advertise and spread the word about what's in some of the better findings, but as it is I have found many of them to be very helpful as points of reference, including in recent discussions. I think that dropping after a year any finding that doesn't have REC-level consensus after a year would waste a huge amount of important work that the TAG has done over a decade. It's pretty clear what TAG Findings are: the considered opinion of the TAG at the time they were published. As I say, I have found a number of the findings to be very helpful, and I often reference them when people ask me for information about Web architecture. Noah [1] http://www.w3.org/2004/10/27-tag-charter#Mission
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