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Bug 7693 - The term "Draft Standard" means something different in IETF than meant here, which adds to the confusion. "Editor's Draft" would be better.
Summary: The term "Draft Standard" means something different in IETF than meant here, ...
Status: VERIFIED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: NoReply
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Reported: 2009-09-22 07:27 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:46 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-09-22 07:27:55 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#draft-standard-—-22-september-2009

Comment:
The term "Draft Standard" means something different in IETF than meant here, which adds to the confusion. "Editor's Draft" would be better.

Posted from: 76.102.104.162
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-09-22 11:50:19 UTC 
HTML5 is a WHATWG Draft Standard. This is the right terminology in the WHATWG.
The W3C copy doesn't say Draft Standard, it says Working Draft.
Comment 2 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:51:34 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
  http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.