Just as I said. The intent of the comment lists has always been to
collect comments, not conduct a public discussion. So we'll provide a
means to do so.
-Karl
Drummond Reed wrote:
> Karl,
>
> I agree with Lauren. At least a limited form of public discussion seems
> like a valuable portion of what OASIS provides. What was the board's
> thinking on this?
>
> =Drummond
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lauren Wood [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:02 AM
> To:
> Subject: [chairs] public comment web form
>
> Karl wrote:
>
> * The TC's public comment list is replaced with a "means to collect
> public comments", which will be a web form. (This is to prevent the
> comment list from being used as a discussion list.) Comments
> collected by the web form will go to the chairs. I'm having the web
> forms built now and will announce to the comment lists when this
> change will take place.
>
>
> Karl,
>
> how do we then ask clarifying questions, or make quick replies (along
> the lines of "see section 2.1. in the spec - isn't that clear
> enough?"
>
> I can understand not wanting full discussions, but we often do need
> clarifying discussions to know what the comment provider really
> meant. And I'd rather not have that take place in private email.
>
> Lauren
>
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> Chair, ER TC
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