Draft TAG minutes from telcon of 13-dec-2012

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TAG-Weekly
13 Dec 2012

Agenda

See also: IRC log
Attendees

Present
    Masinter, plinss, Noah_Mendelsohn, JeniT, Yves, Ashok_Malhotra
Regrets
    Tim_Berners-Lee
Chair
    Noah Mendelsohn 
Scribe
    Peter Linss

Contents

    Topics
        Polyglot
        Agenda for F2F
        issues raised by nominees
    Summary of Action Items

<plinss> Scribe: Peter Linss

<plinss> Scribenick: plinss

Yves confirmed to scribe next week

<Noah> Minutes of 6 December: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2012/12/06-minutes

RESOLUTION: minutes from Dec 6 approved

NM: administrative items
... f2f meeting jan 14-16
... regrets from Jeni

<JeniT> NM: regrets from Henry

NM: Norm Walsh may join us from some of the f2f

Above regrets are for f2f

<Noah> Call on the 27th is cancelled

NM: There will be a call on the 20th if we have an agenda
... and on Jan 3rd, possibly on Jan 10th
Polyglot

<Noah> ACTION-771

<Noah> ACTION-771?

<trackbot> ACTION-771 -- Jeni Tennison to draft e-mail responding to request to rescind polyglot request to HTML WG? -- due 2012-12-13 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/771

<Noah> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/tag/2012Dec/0017.html

AM: I've read the email, looks very good, I recommend we send it

LM: it's fine, send it

NM: Other opinions?

JT: I incorporated Henry's comments

<Noah> close ACTION-771

<trackbot> ACTION-771 Draft e-mail responding to request to rescind polyglot request to HTML WG? closed

<Noah> ACTION: To send https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/tag/2012Dec/0017.html to Henri Sivonen, public-html, HTML chairs and www-tag [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/12/13-tagmem-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Sorry, couldn't find To. You can review and register nicknames at <http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/users>.

NM: anything else in this area?

JT: we discussed if we want to pursue saying something deeper on this. Is there more to do? Note vs Rec?

<masinter> Raising the "Normative" definition, should go in to the "follow up on QA activity" pile

NM: we considered that but it should be considered in the context of priorities, so not now
Agenda for F2F

NM: Larry suggested inviting outsiders, I'd like to list existing work items and first, then go to proposals for outsiders
... Jeni you're doing fragments?

JT: there are no last call comments so far

NM: do we need f2f discussion on this? or can we jut vote to publish?

AM: I think we should ask specific people for comments

NM: Jeni what do you recommend for fragments?

JT: if we go to CR is that when we need to decide exit criteria?

YL: we need to define the exit criteria, if it needs a test suite that can be built during CR

JT: I suggest we have some f2f discussion about exit criteria for fragments

<masinter> this document may need other kinds of 'implementation'. Every "best practice" should have some example of practice

NM: Can you put some thought into framing that for discussion?

<Noah> OK, so one F2F agenda item will be to settle CR exit criteria for the fragids draft

LM: I can write something.

<Noah> ACTION: Larry with help from Jeni to propose CR exit criteria for fragids finding Due 2013-01-08 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/12/13-tagmem-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-772 - With help from Jeni to propose CR exit criteria for fragids finding Due 2013-01-08 [on Larry Masinter - due 2012-12-20].

NM: Ashok, you were saying it didn't feel right to proceed on publishing without hearing from the community?

AM: right, there are at least five people I'd like to see review it

<masinter> I've asked people for review but haven't gotten back anything recently

NM: we could invite some of the to them f2f

<masinter> at some point you just go to CR and use that as the trigger

<masinter> working on 'exit criteria' might drive us

<Noah> ACTION: Ashok to line up reviewers for Publishing and Linking and invite to participate in F2F [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/12/13-tagmem-minutes.html#action03]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-773 - Line up reviewers for Publishing and Linking and invite to participate in F2F [on Ashok Malhotra - due 2012-12-20].

<Noah> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/

<Noah> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/defininguris.html

NM: I'd like to look at some of the other projects

<masinter> form an independent task force

<masinter> ?

NM: I think the f2f would be a good time to decide where we go with issue 57, but it will be difficult without Jeni and Henry

<masinter> 1+ to not talking about issue 57

NM: I propose we make issue 57 not a significant item for the f2f

<masinter> +1

JT: fine be me

<Noah> Proposal ISSUE-57 NOT on F2F

<Noah> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/apiminimization.html

NM: privacy by design is aimed for a note

<Noah> Privacy by design is aimed at Note, need F2F slot to consider a review Peter will do

PL: I should have time to do the edits before the f2f

AM: Larry and I asked the privacy guys to take a look at this, the seemed agreeable but nothing has happened

<Noah> ACTION: Peter to frame F2F discussion of Privacy by design note, and possible followup up with privacy group. Due: 2013-01-08 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/12/13-tagmem-minutes.html#action04]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-774 - Frame F2F discussion of Privacy by design note, and possible followup up with privacy group. Due: 2013-01-08 [on Peter Linss - due 2012-12-20].

AM: Nick Doty is writng a document on fingerprinting, Robin added fingerprinting to privacy by design, we should discuss whether to integrate or hand over

NM: HTML/XML unification

LM: I don't see anything else to do

<Noah> . ACTION: Noah to sort out status of HTML/XML Unification -- believed to be WE'RE DONE in time for F2F planning.

NM: persistence of identifiers

<Noah> Peristence of identifiers: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/persistence.html

NM: Web apps storage

<Noah> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/clientsidestorage.html

<scribe> Scribenick: noah

AM: I ran a TPAC sessions on offline storage

<plinss> Scribenick: plinss

<masinter> I think "persistence of identifiers" is based on poor theory of semantics and doomed

AM: Alex Russell is going to create a blog post about architecture

NM: I'd like the TAG to write a piece about when to use URIs offline or not

(discussion about offline email)

NM: we've been carrying this for a year but nothing has happened

<masinter> local + backup nearly equivalent to remote + cache

AM: I think it's OK to wait for the elections, if we get Alex he'll have some ideas on this

<scribe> Scribenick: noah

AM: Propose to NOT do storage at F2F, wait for new composition of TAG

NM: Can I convince you to try to get the right people involved to make a good plan for January.

AM: Maybe

NM: OK, it's a maybe for the F2F

<masinter> 'nearly equivalent'

NM: Please let me know

<masinter> note dropbox URLs now

<plinss> Scribenick: plinss

NM: Larry, you wanted to talk about reforming the tag

<masinter> i'm surprised by the 'reform' platform only because we haven't heard it before

NM: we're always limited by who shows up. If people had asked us to do these things we may not have been able to.

<masinter> i agree with many of the problem statements, but not necessarily with the proposed solutions

<scribe> Scribenick: noah

LM: For the moment, I have no specifics on F2F and TAG futures until we discuss more details of the ideas

<plinss> Scribenick: plinss

<masinter> I wouldn't mind inviting any TAG nominee to join us

<masinter> it would allow them to plan to attend whether or not they win

<masinter> anyone who is seriously nominated by a member, and who is willing to write about what the TAG should do, could be invited

<masinter> even to regular TAG meetings and calls, to open up the TAG
issues raised by nominees

<scribe> Scribenick: noah

PL: Mostly said what I wanted to in my blog post. I don't think we're connecting w/rest of W3C very well. There are lots of places people could use guidance and not getting it. We spend a lot of time talking about talking about things.

<plinss> Scribenick: plinss

NM: as chair, I try to let this be directed by the members, when these things come up, no one wants to do it
... I'd like you all to give some thought as to how we can do this better

LM: I think if the problem is a lack of interest in the TAG, then we need members interested in the topics

<masinter> but I'm interested in the topics the reformers want to talk about

<masinter> and i'm more interested in them than the topics the TAG talks about

<masinter> AWWW *is* out of date

AM: one of the comments was that the AWWW doc is out of date

<masinter> it's for the web-of-documents and we've moved to a web-of-applications

<Noah> We spent 2 years trying to solve that problem. I think it was the right problem. We wound up doing a few pieces on things like Web app state.

<masinter> and give up on taking pride in AWWW

AM: I think it's correct but I don't quite know what to do about it

NM: we identified this problem 3 years ago, we didn't say it was wrong, just incomplete

<masinter> we need a work plan for updating AWWW

<masinter> what needs to change, in what ways?

<masinter> there's more than one "architecture", likely.

<Noah> We spent a year making a work plan to update AWWW to account for Web apps and other modern Web developments. We did some pieces, but a disappointing fraction of what one would want. We had a table of contents (several actually)

AM: I think we need to make an effort to redo it or add to it

<Noah> We did findings covering a few parts of a few chapters

LM: AWWW talks about a web of documents but not of applications

<masinter> but then when we schedule meetings, we let legacy issues take up meeting time

<masinter> it's a matter of prioritization

NM: we tried to do work here, but didn't do to well, I want to figure out how to do it differently

<masinter> I like Alex Russell's blog post the best, because it's very specific

<masinter> "This is what our biggest, “best” webapps do today, relying on ENORMOUS piles of JavaScript that largely serve to re-create what browsers already do in the hopes of marginally extending that capability. It’s simply nuts, but the TAG doesn’t seem to acknowledge the threat this poses to everything it holds dear: linking, declarative forms, data…it’s all about to be lost beneath the waves, and because the TAG doesn’t understand the growing

<masinter> importance of JS, it seemingly doesn’t see the threat."

NM: It's also a matter of deciding how comprehensive we want to be

LM: we don't take votes on priorities

NM: no but we look for consensus
... if we agree that browser focused is more important than semantic web then we'd focus there

<masinter> I have made my objections to continuing to talk about ISSUE 57 clear in the TAG. I'd join an independent task force to work on it, but I think it should be off TAG agenda

<scribe> Scribenick: noah

LM: Task forces has worked well.

<plinss> Scribenick: plinss

NM: I want to figure out how to do things better

<scribe> Scribenick: noah

NM: I agree completely.

<plinss> Scribenick: plinss

LM: I think having task forces would be profitable

<masinter> http://infrequently.org/2012/12/reforming-the-w3c-tag/

NM: maybe the TAG should play more of a coordinating role and less of a legislating role

<Noah> NM: Maybe a good idea underlying the task force idea is for the TAG to play more of a coordinating role, involving more of the community in our day-to-day work

<masinter> more sponsored task forces to work on specific technology

<masinter> "The TAG is the right group to formulate and articulate a theory of good layering in the web platform’s architecture"

NM: the pattern is often that a member has a specific goal but the rest of the group doesn't always engage with it

AM: there seems to be reluctance to agree that javascript has become ubiquitous

<masinter> I think the "web" has changed, and the boundary between "web" and "apps" has just erased

LM: I think the web of documents is history, most are now apps

NM: there's a balance between documents and apps and we have to get that right

<masinter> alexa "top 100 web sites" used in HTTP benchmarks

<masinter> those are mainly dynamic sites with lots of scripting

<masinter> cnn.com is dynamic, not static

LM: if you look at cnn.com. it's an app

<masinter> view-source:http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/13/justice/texas-pentagram-carving/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

AM: who are we writing the architecture document for?
... I think we're writing it for young guys starting to create web sites
... you have to speak about documents and hypertext, but you also have to speak about javascript
... I think the document we have is not oriented that way

NM: can we agree that we have concluded that the web of applications is important and that it would be wonderful if the TAG could find the right to way to make a contribution to help peolpe understand it
... how can we do differently so we find we have more impact?

<scribe> Scribenick: noah

NM: We concluded that three years ago. The question is, how can we focus differently to have more useful impact

<plinss> Scribenick: plinss

<masinter> i think the TAG needs a work plan to do the AWWW update

<masinter> schedule more meeting time for it

NM: how is it going to be different from the last two we had?

<masinter> I'd start with Alex's blog post

NM: between now and the f2f, can someone go over the history of this work and let's learn from that experience

<masinter> Katz writes "Here’s another example a layer deeper: many parts of the DOM API have magic behavior that are extremely difficult to explain in terms of the exposed API of ECMAScript 3. For example, the innerHTML property has side-effects, and ES3 does not provide a mechanism for declaring setters. The ECMAScript 5 specification provides some additional primitives that make it possible to explain more of the existing DOM behavior in terms

<masinter> of JavaScript. While designing ECMAScript 6, the committee has repeatedly discussed how certain new features could help explain more of the DOM API."

<masinter> I'd invite Alex & Yehuda to review the draft AWWW update

<masinter> updating AWWW doesn't appear in the TAG work plan

<masinter> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/

<Noah> It did for several years, Larry. When that finally proved too much, we said "let's start by writing some findings, then use those to update AWWW. Seems to have resulted in a 10 year plan"

<masinter> people take the product pages as a list of TAG priorities

NM: maybe we need to organize this differently, maybe bring in more people who work with the browsers and sketch out the pain points

<masinter> looking at WebIDL

<masinter> and TC39 liaison

<Noah> I think Larry is summarizing ideas from http://infrequently.org/2012/12/reforming-the-w3c-tag/

NM: we need to iterate on these things, and determine where the TAG wants to focus

<masinter> i don't see as much specific in the others

NM: do we want to continue discussion about this next week?

(silence)

NM: Adjourned

<Noah> MAY cancel call next week if no topics
Summary of Action Items
[NEW] ACTION: Ashok to line up reviewers for Publishing and Linking and invite to participate in F2F [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/12/13-tagmem-minutes.html#action03]
[NEW] ACTION: Larry with help from Jeni to propose CR exit criteria for fragids finding Due 2013-01-08 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/12/13-tagmem-minutes.html#action02]
[NEW] ACTION: Peter to frame F2F discussion of Privacy by design note, and possible followup up with privacy group. Due: 2013-01-08 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/12/13-tagmem-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: To send https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/tag/2012Dec/0017.html to Henri Sivonen, public-html, HTML chairs and www-tag [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/12/13-tagmem-minutes.html#action01]
 
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