Subject: XS: Guidelines for the discussion From: bosak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon Bosak) Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 14:19:35 -0700 |
Obviously I can't dictate what this group decides to talk about, so basically this is just a set of suggestions and an explanation of the ground rules as far as my own behavior is concerned. 1. As that member of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 DSSSL Rapporteur Group (ahem) responsible for the maintenance of the DSSSL Online Application Profile (which is what XS still is), I remain responsible for making the final decisions about what happens with the XS draft. I stop being the final arbiter of what happens with the draft when it gets submitted to the W3C in a couple of months, at which point I will not only lose control of the draft but will probably also have to remove myself as the editor in order to avoid conflicts with my chairmanship of the XML group. 2. Bearing in mind that the point of dsssl-o (and hence XS) is to give implementors something reasonable to aim for, I am going to be guided by the principle that nothing in DSSSL that is not in Jade is going to be required by the specification. If James can't implement it, there's no point in talking about it. 3. An important implication of this rule is that we can accomplish some good early work by looking at the things currently supported by Jade that are not required by the spec and asking of each one whether it should be. I would like to suggest this as a place to start. 4. To maintain my sanity (what's left of it), I am going to continue to read the DSSSList as a Daily Digest subscriber. This means that I do not intend to take a very active role in the discussion. In fact, I may let several days go by at a time before catching up with it. But I will read everything said on this subject and I will produce revised versions of the draft based on what occurs on the list. 5. To keep the XS discussion thread distinct from other topics on DSSSList, Tony Graham has asked me to request that all messages pertaining to this subject begin with the string "XS: ". Please try to keep your postings short and focused; if the XS discussion begins to overwhelm the other topics on the list, it will have to be moved to a list of its own. Jon DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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