xml-dev - Re: W3C public lists (was Re: The Power of Groves)

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:

> I probably shouldn't get this started, but I've never received an official
> reply to any specific comments I've posted regarding W3C specs from anyone
> involved in their development.  (Mostly I haven't even gotten unofficial
> replies.)

Well, if you make a public comment to www-xml-infoset-comments, it *will*
be resolved in a public disposition-of-comments message before Infoset
goes to CR or PR.

I personally guarantee this, Simon.

> Replying publicly to such messages on a regular basis might make people
> feel that they could make a difference by posting to such lists, and
> generate a lot more traffic than currently exists.

The intention of the www-*-comments list is to provide a log of
public comments: they are more likely to be looked at on the Web
after the fact than processed in real time as email.  But (at
least in any WGs I belong to) their contents do get considered.
 
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