- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:32:49 +0100
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:> 2012-08-01 17:37, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > >> The error report > [...] >> contains a link to >> >> http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/nfc-faq > > The validator links to many pages that might be classified as unofficial. THhat is my concern (see more recent reply to Benjamin) > >> Linking to a web site that seems (from its name) more concerned with >> coffee than with standards would seem a sad error of judgement to me, >> and does not reflect well on the Validator or its creators. > > The macchiato.com site may have its problems, and it does not seem to > visibly indicate its author. But by peeking at the source code, or at > meta tag information using a browser that gives access to it, you can > find out that it belongs to Mark Davis, the president of the Unicode > Consortium. OK, agreed : Registrant: Macchiato 2509 Alpine Road Menlo Park, CA 94025 US med@gessire.pair.com +1.650******* Domain Name: MACCHIATO.COM Administrative & Technical Contact: Mark Davis Macchiato 814 Paulson CIR Menlo Park, CA 94025 US None the less, I for one would place infinitely more credence on a page on an official Unicode site that I would on what appears to be a personal site owned by its President. It is incumbent on standards bodies (such as the Unicode Consortium) to present material that is factually correct; it is not the case that individuals, no matter how elevated in a given organisation, have the same responsibility w.r.t. their personal web sites. Philip Taylor
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