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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brownell" <david-b@p...> To: "Rick JELLIFFE" <ricko@a...>; <xml-dev@x...> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 1:26 PM Subject: Re: Anti-Ranti > > Curiously, the official W3C process expects all non-members to wait > till "Proposed Recommendation" or (new) "Candidate Recommendation" > to express opinions. An "appropriate" moment is already defined. I don't think this is a fair reading of the W3C process document http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/tr.html#RecsWD It says "This is a public W3C Working Draft for review by W3C members and other interested parties" Thus, the appropriate moment can be the Working Draft. Granted, it takes a lot of faith, hope, naivete, or resources to implement WDs since they are highly subject to change, but non-members who want to participate in the process are VERY welcome to try implementing WDs and comment on their problems. As a matter of fact, that is exactly how one usually becomes an "invited expert". Mind you, I agree that many working groups are not sufficiently responsive to outside input, but this is the style of the WGs, not the policy of the W3C. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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