New footer element

Issue: Justification for adding the "footer" element.

Details: footer represents a footer for a section and can contain information about the author, copyright information, et cetera.

Note: The "footer" element is questioned.

Rationale: Why this Element Should be Added

1. Improves structure.
2. Provides for skipping over administrative information in e.g. aural UAs when the user wants to scan a page as quickly as possible omitting such notices.
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Rationale: Why this Element Should Not be Added

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• Re: the market hasn't spoken - it hasn't bothered to listened (was Re: fear of "invisible metadata") - Henri Sivonen (27 Jun 2007)