- From: Ora Lassila <daml@lassila.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 21:16:07 -0500
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
All, I sympathize with the chairs and the editors -- they particularly are under tremendous pressure. However, Jim Hendler wrote: >Our WG deadlines are >not very negotiable, but our "staffing", with 50 WG members, can be. Why cannot we negotiate deadlines? We are engaged in fundamentally important work: we are trying to produce the *best* possible specification, and if we need to take some extra time I feel we should be allowed to do it. Largely artificial deadlines should not be the biggest pressure when "design by committee" is our greatest enemy. Too often -- in the context of some W3C working group -- I have heard the comment "we do not have time for this" when someone has suggested some improvement. Food for thought. - Ora -- Ora Lassila mailto:daml@lassila.org http://www.lassila.org/ Research Fellow, Nokia Research Center
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