W3C

TAG Telcon, April 23, 2009

23 Apr 2009

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Dan Connolly, Larry Masinter, Noah Mendelsohn, Ashok Malhotra, Henry Thompson, Jonathan Rees
Regrets
Tim, Raman
Absent
John Kemp
Chair
Noah Mendelsohn
Scribe
Ashok

Contents


<masinter> I muted

<scribe> scribenick: Ashok

<scribe> scribe: Ashok

Convene

<masinter> I'm not available next week

Noah: I will not be available next Thu. Can someone else chair?

Regrets from Noah, Larry for April 30

Tentatively, there will be a telcon April 30 with DanC in chair, but see below.

Minutes of April 16

Larry: They are fine.

RESOLUTION: Minutes of April 16 approved

Comments on POWDER - DanC

<DanC> my comment on POWDER test materials: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-powderwg/2008Dec/0006.html

DanC: I ran into 404s trying to use their tests
... They are thinking about PR so their test material shd be shiny.

<DanC> . http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-test/#grddl


.HT: I get a page

<DanC> http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-test/tests/grddl_tests/Manifestgrddl002.rdf

<noah> Yes, I get an XML tree

ht: Browser says cannot open

Noah: My browser opens it

<DanC> . http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-test/tests/grddl_tests/powder002.xml

Noah: It get something ....

<DanC> now see grddl service: http://www.w3.org/2007/08/grddl/

Dan, HT, Noah Going thru the POWDER tests

<jar> view source gives you xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2007/05/powder#"

DanC: Basically, there is nothing ... either the GRDDL service is not working or their tests are busted
... I cannot see that their tests work
... Some options:

<DanC> (1) TAG endorses Dan's comment, based on self-describing web finding

<DanC> (2) nothing formal, but thanks for walking us thru it

<DanC> (3) YOUR SUGGESTION HERE

<Zakim> masinter, you wanted to suggest new topic on GeoLocation / GeoPriv privacy issues

<jar> (3) TAG endorses Dan's comment [not based on finding, but based on general principle that GRDDL should work]

<noah> I'm curious what's the precedent here? It's either "this is a particular SDW issue"

<noah> or are we going to chase every 404 or broken GRDDL link

ht: I'm with jar

Ashok: I'm with jar

Noah: Closer to concur

Larry: Concur

<masinter> to be *really* honest, I don't really understand why GRDDL tests are important

<DanC> PROPOSED: to endorse Dan's comment that we can't get the POWER GRDDL tests ( http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-test/#grddl ) to work, and to ask the POWDER WG to fix what's braken or explain how we're doing it wrong.

HT Seconds

No discussion. Larry abstains

<DanC> ACTION: DanC to notify the POWDER WG [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/04/23-minutes#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-262 - Notify the POWDER WG [on Dan Connolly - due 2009-04-30].

<noah> Larry, I think something resembling an answer to your question is in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments.html#RDFSection and especially seciton 5.2

<masinter> groups shouldn't do broken things, of course, but why this one is important for the TAG to comment on, isn't clear.

RESOLUTION: Endorse Dan's comment that we can't get the POWER GRDDL tests ( http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-test/#grddl ) to work, and to ask the POWDER WG to fix what's borken or explain how we're doing it wrong.

HTML

<noah> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Mar/att-0444/draft.html

Web Addresses in HTML5

<DanC> more recent draft: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/href/draft-ietf.html <- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Apr/0199.html

Noah: DanC formatted for IETF

DanC: From the San Francisco mtg

<DanC> "This specification defines the term Web address, "

<noah> DC: San Francisco meeting suggests Web Address -> Hypertext reference

<DanC> [[ Still outstanding is the suggestion to change from "Web Addresses"

<DanC> to "Hypertext References".

<DanC> ]]

This uses web address -- the earlier usage was Hypertext Refererence

LM: Hoping this will replace IRI spec
... I understand why we have 2 specs ... I'm unhappy if there would be 3

<DanC> "good interim stage" , yes, that's where I feel we are

<noah> I think we need to note that Larry is suggesting that having this spec and IRI is one too many.

HT: If authors of this specs agree w/you we have 2 groups planning to replace 3987... not good

<Zakim> noah, you wanted to ask whether this is just too many specs, or whether there are really 3 sets of rules according to context

Noah: Larry implies there are 2 sets of usecases and 3 specs ... not a good situation
... URI not suitable for Chinese etc. IRI to replace some usages of URI

<DanC> (ht, I'm sympathetic to LMM's suggestion to expand the scope of my draft to obsolete RFC2987, but I boggle/tremble at the size of the task.)

Noah: HTML folks looking at removing leading and trailing spaces ....

HT: IRI spec was meant to be what people type

<DanC> noah, to whom was your question directed?

<noah> Anyone who knows the answer (he says perhaps unhelpfully)

<DanC> unhelpfully indeed.

<noah> Sorry

<noah> I was just curious if I was either missing something obvious, or perhaps pointing out a clear distinction in the goals of the spec. I suggest you ignore my question and go back to the q

<Zakim> DanC, you wanted to ask which IETF area director, if any, is supervising the RFC3987bis effort

Larry: URI/IRI change was a way of managing versioning situation

HT: Is there an area director working with 3987bis

<ht> DanC, sorry -- yes, of necessity there is an area Director, but I don' t know who it is

<Zakim> ht, you wanted to ask DanC what he sees the relationship of this draft RFC to 3987 and 3987-bis is

Larry: W3C shd not publish docs that are conflict with how international domain names are beiing defined

<masinter> ((sorry))

<masinter> has anyone asked Martin / Michel ?

<Zakim> ht2, you wanted to explain about the LEIRI note

HT: Already been a parallel effort within W3C ... A number of XML specs have spaces in BNF for "web addresses"
... e.g. system identifiers, namespace names,
... most of them copy from Xlink how to turn string to URI

<noah> Ah, now I know what LEIRI is. Knew about the effort, just didn't recognize the latest initialism

HT: There were several copies of these bullet points that were almost identical
... so we (Core) thought we wd publish a 1 page spec ... after discussion thought this wd be better in IRIbis

<DanC> (noah, who's the shepherd for this IRIEverywhere issue? http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/27 )

HT: what this did was define Legacy Extended IRI
... saying there were addreses that did not match IRI production (contained spaces, etc.)

<DanC> (I think it's expecting too much for the scribe and the meeting to get this story orally; I'd appreciate if HT would accept an action to tell the story in email to www-tag)

HT: Major difference between thais draft and LEIRI note was char encoding

<DanC> ACTION: HT summarize LEIRIs and "4 specs" in mail to www-tag [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/04/23-minutes#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-263 - Summarize LEIRIs and "4 specs" in mail to www-tag [on Henry S. Thompson - due 2009-04-30].

<DanC> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/27

DanC: I consider my action done.

HT: What happens next?

<DanC> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/27

<DanC> close ACTION-253

<trackbot> ACTION-253 Brief the TAG on progress on \"web addresses in HTML\" draft closed

<noah> The chair wishes to remind himself that issue 27 is indeed a much better header for future discussion of this than the current "HTML"

Larry: How to coordinate these efforts?
... don't know how to help

Noah: Would TAG intervention help with LEIRI spec

Larry: Bemoans situation! Says it's impt for TAG to work on this

Noah: Has someone compared specs and figured out what they provide
... That would be a god service from the TAG

DanC: Let's see what HT writes
... would like to keep this on the front burner

Noah: We will schedule discussion next week ... or soon after HT's email

<DanC> +1 not do more on IRIEverwhere-27 next week

Noah: Let's not discuss next week as Larry will not be there

<DanC> ht, like this? http://www.w3.org/html/wg/href/draft-ietf.html

<jar> action-259

XMLVersioning-41 (ISSUE-41).

<DanC> action-259?

<trackbot> ACTION-259 -- Larry Masinter to kick off discussion of versioning principles to apply to HTML, engage jonathan and henry. -- due 2009-04-23 -- OPEN

<trackbot> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/actions/259

Noah: Can we talk abt Action 260?

<jar> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Apr/0042.html makes 260 pending review

jar: I sent mail and Larry responded

<DanC> (all this process gunk just gets in the way; wouldn't it be more straightforward to say "versioning, jonathan, you were going to do X; how is that going?" )

<jar> note to minutes editor: make sure my 'makes pending review' comment refers to 260, not 259. thanks.

Larry: Please respond to issue

<DanC> From: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>

<DanC> To: www-tag@w3.org WG <www-tag@w3.org>

<DanC> Subject: Versioning and HTML

<DanC> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:14:46 -0700 (13:14 CDT)

DanC: What shd we reply to?

<noah> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Apr/0045.html

Larry: email did not ask specific questions. I will send out new email with questions.

<DanC> ACTION-259 due next week

<trackbot> ACTION-259 Kick off discussion of versioning principles to apply to HTML, engage jonathan and henry. due date now next week

Noah: Versioning touches so many things ... started with XML versioning .... now talking abt HTML versioning
... can we close jar's action?

<masinter> "Flame on language verisoning and multiplexing"

<masinter> wasn't really a flame

<jar> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Apr/0042.html

DanC: I think action is done

<DanC> "Flame on language versioning and multiplexing" http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Apr/0042.html

Noah: Encourage TAG to read note and then schedule discussion

<masinter> when there are action items to "send email to start a discussion", do other TAG members need a reminder to discuss

<noah> I'm trying to figure out whether enough TAG members have already read to allow discussion now, or whether I need to schedule later. Still a bit confused.

<ht> http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200904/msg00033.html

<masinter> <Doctype HTML> for example is a question

<masinter> "if HTML5 becomes a Rec and we realize we did something poorly we will cause rampant compatibility problems if we change implementations. "

<masinter> what should HTML working group do to keep bad things from happening?

jar: I keep hoping someone will apply these ideas .... you could use this framework to analyze latest proposal from Google.

<masinter> "There are a whole bunch of versioning mechanism that will address that but also cause their own problems.

Noah: We need a shepherd for this issue

<masinter> I'm willing to shepherd but can't do it for the next week

<jar> Example phenomena to which to apply the framework: RDFa in HTML4/5; "canonical" link type. Identify game, players, payoffs

Larry: I can shepherd this issue
... we can rename issue

<DanC> (renaming and splitting has happened before. I'd like a TAG decision to rename, and of course it takes a TAG decision to split, since that involves making a new issue.)

Noah: Let's close Action 260
... Action 259

<DanC> close action-260

<trackbot> ACTION-260 Review and post the email exchange he had with Larry on versioning about 1-2 months ago closed

Larry: I will refine my questions

<DanC> action-259: update tracker description while you're at it

<trackbot> ACTION-259 Kick off discussion of versioning principles to apply to HTML, engage jonathan and henry. notes added

New Unschedled Item --- Geolocation, privacy policies

<Zakim> noah, you wanted to talk about shepherding

Ashok: PLING has been tracking this with low effort

<Zakim> DanC, you wanted to say yes, I'm aware... I was briefed by W3C team contact and then spoke briefly with IETF WG chair and to suggest John K. is likely to be watching

<Zakim> noah, you wanted to ask what exactly TAG would do, and why now

DanC: Talks abt interaction with folks on this issue

Noah: Why aren't the WG s capable of handing this?

Larry: Nor sure this is a TAG issue

Noah: Is there a particular issue?

<noah> Larry, are you wanting an action to track followup on this?

<masinter> sure, that's fine

<noah> AM: Thomas Roessler offered to make suggestions on how TAG could help

<masinter> I wonder if this is a 'use case' for TAG work on security. I'm not interested in the TAG weighing in on the particular issue so much as how security and privacy fit into web architecture.

<Zakim> DanC, you wanted to note one particular IETF draft and to note http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barnes-geopriv-lo-sec-05

<noah> Ah, so there's a proposal that the W3C geolocation API should be changed.

Ashok: TLR was supposed to send mail to DanC re how TAG may help with priivacy/sercurity etc.

<DanC> "

<DanC> An Architecture for Location and Location Privacy in Internet

<DanC> Applications

<DanC> draft-barnes-geopriv-lo-sec-05

<DanC> "

<DanC> (ashok, send mail to tlr and me, cc www-tag, perhaps?)

<noah> ACTION: Ashok to draft agenda item for upcoming telcon discussion of geolocation and privacy [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/04/23-minutes#action03]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-264 - Draft agenda item for upcoming telcon discussion of geolocation and privacy [on Ashok Malhotra - due 2009-04-30].

Next Week's Call

<masinter> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ietf-w3c/2009Apr/0001.html

<DanC> 7 May

<masinter> and follow up

RESOLUTION: Next week's call cancelled

Next call May 7, 2009

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: Ashok to draft agenda item for upcoming telcon discussion of geolocation and privacy [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/04/23-minutes#action03]
[NEW] ACTION: DanC to notify the POWDER WG [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/04/23-minutes#action01]
[NEW] ACTION: HT summarize LEIRIs and "4 specs" in mail to www-tag [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/04/23-minutes#action02]
 
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