If you request that your comments remain confidential, they will be sent to Mark Gaither and the validation service consultants only. Your response will come by email.
Otherwise, your comments and any responses will become part of the hypertext archive. You will be notified of responses by email as well.
At the discretion of the validation service consultants, if your comments falls within the charter of the HTML Working Group of the IETF, they will be forwarded. HTML-WG members may respond by mail. You are free to join the HTML-WG yourself, of course.
Similarly, you may request that your comments be forwarded to the staff of the W3C.
The HTML Validation Service is brought to you by Dan Connolly, W3C and Mark Gaither, HaLSoft.