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Bug 13251 - Change Proposals sometimes may get the way to the survey stage that are unclear, self-contradictory, or lacking in rationale for some aspects
Summary: Change Proposals sometimes may get the way to the survey stage that are uncle...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: working group Decision Policy (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2011-07-14 16:13 UTC by Maciej Stachowiak
Modified: 2011-07-14 16:57 UTC (History)
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Description Maciej Stachowiak 2011-07-14 16:13:22 UTC 
Change Proposals sometimes may get the way to the survey stage that were unclear, self-contradictory, or lacking in rationale for some aspects. For some past survey decisions, serious defects were found in Change Proposals during or in some cases even after the survey stage.
Comment 1 Maciej Stachowiak 2011-07-14 16:17:32 UTC 
Proposed resolution:

1) Change Proposal review becomes mandatory. 

2) We never go to survey or a Call for Consensus on a single remaining proposal, without the Chairs first giving thorough review comments on all Change Proposals and getting revisions.

2) The policy sets some fixed deadline for revisions (need to determine). 

3) If a proposal is not updated to a satisfactory level by the deadline, we drop it and see if the next step is survey or Call for Consensus (or close without prejudice if no satisfactory Change Proposals remain).