Re: XLink 1.1: Open issues?

/ Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> was heard to say:
| * Norman Walsh wrote:
|>Working groups are not obligated to respond formally to comments made
|>on every working draft.
[...]
| http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/process.html#last-call
|
|   "For a Last Call announcement up to and including publication as a
|   Recommendation, the Working Group MUST: ... Formally address all
|   issues raised about the document since the previous step."

The only similar text that I can find in the Feb 2004 process document is
under http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/process.html#transition-reqs
It reads:

  For a Call for Implementations up to and including publication as a
  Recommendation, the Working Group MUST:

I do not believe that the requirements of formally addressing[1] each
comment applies to transitions before reaching last call.

In any event, it is clear that we must formally address each comment
on the last call document, and if you feel that we have overlooked an
issue, please send the comment and the WG will (re)consider it.

|>The WG discussed these comments and decided to proceed to Last Call
|>with the current draft.
|
| So the XML Core Working Group's position is that per the W3C Process
| document Working Groups may refrain from informing reviewers that their
| issues raised against Working Drafts were rejected by the Working Group?

No. And I don't really want to debate the finer points fo the process
document. I want to make progress on our working draft. With respect
to the two comments you called out

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/2005JanMar/0009.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-linking-comments/2005AprJun/0003.html

I observe that several of the points (interactions with CSS, non-DTD
samples, editorial comments) are ones that we will address and others
(defaults for show and actuate) are explicitly out-of-scope.

Please let us know if this addresses your question of open issues.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

[1] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/process.html#formal-address

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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