Re: ISSUE-54: doctype-legacy-compat - suggest closing on 2009-09-03

On Aug 20, 2009, at 11:03 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>> Sam Ruby and Dan Connolly asked me to send proposed issue closures  
>> in individual emails, with clear subject lines, and Cc'd to the  
>> issue originator when possible. Apologies for the spam. If there  
>> are no objections, I will close this issue on 2009-09-03.
>> ------------
>> ISSUE-54: doctype-legacy-compat - tools that can't generate <! 
>> DOCTYPE html>
>> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/54
>> As I understand it, we have consensus on the solution to this  
>> issue, which is <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "about:legacy-compat">. The  
>> spec has been updated to include this option. As far as I know, the  
>> only reason this issue is open is for some action on registering  
>> the about: URI scheme. There is an Internet-Draft (last updated  
>> 8/12) for the about: URI scheme:
>> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-holsten-about-uri-scheme-02.txt
>> I believe no further action is needed for HTML5 Last Call. The  
>> progress and details of this Internet-Draft should now be tracked  
>> via the IETF. Since we have consensus on ISSUE-54 itself, we should  
>> close it. If anyone knows of a reason that further progress on the  
>> registration should block HTML5 Last Call, I suggest we raise a new  
>> issue to track whatever concretely needs to happen with the  
>> registration.
>> ...
>
> Right now, the document describing the "about" URI scheme is an  
> individual submission on which work is progressing slowly. Neither  
> the process of publication nor the process of scheme registration  
> has really been started yet.
>
> Thus, it seems it would be better to either leave this issue open,  
> or to create a new one for tracking the progress.

If we raise a new issue for registering the "about" scheme, what  
should it say? What concrete milestone, if any, do you believe we need  
to pass to unblock Last Call?

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Friday, 21 August 2009 07:14:05 UTC