Re: ISSUE-124 rel-limits - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals

On Nov 10, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/124 
>> http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-124
>> 
>> - We have a single change proposal to allow use of the "nofollow" and 
>> "noreferrer" relations on <link> elements
>> 
>> At this time the Chairs would also like to solicit alternate Change 
>> Proposals (possibly with "zero edits" as the Proposal Details), in case 
>> anyone would like to advocate the status quo or a different change than 
>> the specific one in the existing Change Proposals.
> 
> Are we aware of any user agents that are intending to implement the 
> proposed feature? If not, would the lack of such intent be sufficient for 
> the chairs to decide against the change proposal even in the absence of 
> other proposals, or does a proposal automatically win if it is not 
> formally opposed by a counter-proposal?


Two-part answer:

- If there is no opposing proposal, we will put forth a call for consensus, rather than a survey. Implementors could object to the CfC, but then we'd likely ask any objectors to write a counter-proposal.

- If we have no implementations of the proposal by the time we go to CR, I would expect it to be listed as an "at risk" feature and dropped in due course if there continue to be no implementations. Likewise for any other HTML5 feature with no implementations going into CR.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Wednesday, 10 November 2010 17:38:19 UTC