Re: WOWG: agenda Sep 19 telecon

From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: WOWG: agenda Sep 19 telecon
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:19:11 -0400

> At 11:38 AM -0400 9/18/02, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> >I am worried that there has been no indication of what should happen in
> >preparation for the upcoming F2F.  I haven't seen any information about
> >which documents will be considered at F2F4, or which topics will be
> >discussed there.
> >
> >According to what Dan said
> >(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2001Nov/0132.html),
> >documents should be *finalized* two weeks before a F2F.  I'm willing to
> >shave this to a week, but I think that it is necessary to determine which
> >documents will be up for consideration, and what topics are going to be
> >discussed, with at least two weeks of lead time.
> >
> >I consider this an extremely serious problem.  In my view, most of this
> >week's telecon has to be devoted to preparation for F2F4.
> >
> >Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> >Bell Labs Research
> 
> Peter -
>   As per our charter and chair responsibilities Guus and I are working 
> on a proposed agenda for f2f4 --   we expect to have that released to 
> the group this week (Monday 23rd is two weeks before, so we are on 
> schedule for the agenda).  Documents we're expecting have mostly been 
> discussed - I believe there are no documents that aren't already 
> actioned and in prep.  What we are more worried about is the issues 
> that are open -- we believe the f2f will be a better place to get 
> final agreement on the hard issues, than to get all the i's dotted 
> and t's crossed in documents -- we do the latter pretty well by phone 
> - but the former needs to be done before we can complete documents.

OK, so I won't worry about working over Pat's document yet again.

peter

Received on Wednesday, 18 September 2002 19:04:49 UTC