- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:29:10 +0100
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Also sprach Robin Berjon:
> > As I understand it, a Working Draft signals the intent to proceed
> > along the Recommendation track, and the section you quoted describes
> > what happens if for whatever reason the Working Draft is taken off
> > that path. So what Boris said matches my understanding.
>
> Nope. Besides, Karl was quoting form the TR page, not from the
> Process.
> The Process has this to say:
>
> "A Working Draft is a document that W3C has published for review by
> the community, including W3C Members, the public, and other technical
> organizations. Some, but not all, Working Drafts are meant to advance
> to Recommendation; see the document status section of a Working Draft
> for the group's expectations."
> -- http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q73
But, all WDs were -- at some point by someone -- intended to become
Recs, no? Or, if they weren't, didn't they say so from the start?
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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