- From: Jonathan A Rees <rees@mumble.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:15:24 -0400
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
- Cc: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
+1 to refocus on Architectural Recommendations, which is what the TAG did successfully until 2004. We should look at how this idea would help force the disposition of the ten findings that are currently in possible-Arch-Rec limbo [1]. But exploratory work and efforts toward Notes shouldn't be shunned just because we don't see a clear path to Arch Rec - after all problem solving is what draws people to the TAG, not the prospect of shepherding Arch Recs. I'd try to have a mixed portfolio of Arch Rec and speculative work. I think there are important issues that may take 5 or 10 years (or careers) to work out as background tasks, and they shouldn't be shut out just because we aren't confident we can drive them to conclusion in a year or two. (I guess you didn't say otherwise.) +1 to taking issue-57 off our agenda. It is a real problem, just not a problem that's appropriate any more for the TAG to work on beyond an appropriate handoff. I assume you are just using it as a recent and prominent example of how we might better use our time; there may be other examples. +1 to thinking about ways to attract the right talent to the TAG. We tend to look under our lampposts, and this is natural and appropriate to some extent. What is urgent and important has evolved since 2004. Ultimately to change what the TAG can address well, the AC and director must change its personnel; it's not up to the current membership. In the meantime it would be good if possible to put more effort into promoting the kind of work we'd like to see done by others (whether they will be future TAG members or not) by raising the visibility of important problems and making work on them seem more enticing. This means publishing more speculation and more questions (in addition to all those Arch Recs). [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/findings
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