Re: ISSUE-18: Clarify audience of wsc-usecases

> > Since this Note discusses the assumptions, goals, and processes
> > the working group will use to develop its recommendations, the
> > intended audience is similiar to that of the charter of the
> > working group; working group members, the W3C community,
> > developers of web user agents, web content providers (server
> > administrators), and parties interested and engaged in what the
> > Web Security Context working group's plans and directions are. 
> 
> I'm fine with the text up to this point.
> 
> > It is explicitly not targeted at the presumed beneficiaries of
> > the group's work, the users of the web, and it is not expected
> > that an average user would be able to read this document and 
> > understand it. 
> 
> This is pretty strong wording.  One of the points of doing use case
> work is to enable discussions on a somewhat higher level that
> requires less technical understanding than real participation in the
> group would necessitate.
> 
> That said, I also agree that an average user won't be likely to
> understand the note, and that we don't aim for that.
> 
> I'd probably just strike that paragraph.

I'd prefer not to; that's the paragraph that gets to the exact question 
two reviewers have asked - are regular users supposed to read and 
understand this. So I would prefer language that addresses that 
accurately, as opposed to silence. 
        Mez

Received on Wednesday, 9 May 2007 22:45:58 UTC