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Agenda of 26 April 2012 TAG Teleconference

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1. Convene
   • Chair: Noah Mendelsohn, Scribe: Robin Berjon (confirmed)
   • Regrets: Peter Linss, Larry Masinter
   • Future regrets: None
   • Agenda Review - this agenda
   • Next Meeting: 3 May 2012, Chair: Noah Mendelsohn
   • Future scribes: Jeni Tennison, Larry Masinter, Jonathan Rees
2. Approve minutes of prior meeting(s)
   • 2-4 April 2012 (F2F — Sophia-Antipolis, FR)
   • 12 April 2012 (if available in time)
   • 19 April 2012
3. Administrative items
   • Verify that group is agreeable to Noah's proposal for addressing ACTION-687 (on references to unstable specs) without taking telcon time
4. Close pending Actions without discussion
   • The chair suggests that the following actions are ready to close without further discussion. If that proves incorrect, any necessary discussion will defered until the other Pending Review Items slot later in this call.
   • Actions to be closed:
     • ACTION-664: on - Noah Mendelsohn - Announce completion of TAG work on Microdata/RDFa as recorded in http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/products/htmldata.html and to finalize the product page and associated links - Due: 2012-05-01 - PENDING REVIEW — e-mail announcing completion of Microdata/RDFa work
5. ACTION-656: Getting W3C to Invest in Technologies for Liberal XML processing (XML-ER):
   • Goal:
     • Consider whether the XML Error Recovery Community Group effort is adopting the right goals and use cases
     • If appropriate, identify recommended changes to XML-ER charter and next steps in ensuring these are taken to the XML-ER group
   • Background
     • XML-ER Group Home Page
     • E-mail from Jeni Tennison: frame discussion of XML-ER goals and use cases
     • ACTION-696: on - Jeni Tennison - frame discussion of XML-ER goals and use cases - Due: 2012-04-24 - PENDING REVIEW
     • Relating to TAG discussion at the April 2012 F2F:
       • On 15 March 2012 Henry Thompson requested F2F discussion
       • Minutes of 3 April 2012 F2F discussion of XML-ER
       • ACTION-686: on - Robin Berjon - try to find who is in charge of the current browser content sniffing clustermess, and see if there is a way of moving out of the quagmire - Due: 2012-05-01 - OPEN
       • ACTION-687: on - Noah Mendelsohn - Look for opportunities to discuss putting forward something to the AB about the Process and the failed reference from REC drafts to expired RFCs as a side-effect of scope creep etc. - Due: 2012-04-24 - OPEN (after some e-mail discussion Noah has proposed a way forward that will not require telcon time) — see Administrative items above
     • ACTION-656: on - Noah Mendelsohn - Schedule discussion of possibly getting W3C to invest in technologies for liberal XML processing (e.g. XML5) - Due: 2012-04-24 - PENDING REVIEW
6. TAG Election Procedures
   • Goals:
     • Understand concerns that have been raised about TAG election procedures
     • Decide what role, if any, it's appropriate for the TAG to play in addressing such concerns
     • If based on the above considerations it's appropriate for the TAG to get involved, investigate the merits of the concerns raised, and decide on next steps
   • Background:
     • Robin Berjon has made proposals for "reforming" the TAG election process
     • The chair (Noah) has commented "...changes to the W3C process are formally the responsibility of the AB, W3C management and the AC. Normally, we don't discuss process issues on the TAG, except when they affect our ability to do our technical work [...] Obviously, changing the processes relating to the TAG itself is a special case, and I'm fine with scheduling some informal brainstorming". Larry raises a similar concern. The chair then wrote: "we will have a brief discussion of this on Thursday, and we will do it with the understanding that any formal work on changing the process is coordinated by the AB/Team/AC."
     • See also extensive e-mail thread(s) with subject TAG productivity, elections, and httpRange-14 (but note that for discussion on 25 April, the chair intends to limit the scope to election reform, and not to broader questions of TAG findings, TAG effectiveness, etc.)
7. Pending Review Items:
   • Pending review actions in Tracker
8. Overdue Action Items:
   • Overdue actions in Tracker
9. Any other business