On Monday 2015-08-10 12:27 +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:59 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > > Web Platform Working Group: > > http://www.w3.org/2015/07/web-platform-wg.html > > > > Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should > > say as part of this charter review. > > Jeff Jaffe told me at one point that Mozilla is not asking the W3C to > not duplicate work. Whenever that comes up my response is usually that > it does not matter either way, but I suppose we could give it a go.
I guess I have mixed feelings about that. It's advantageous to have WHATWG specifications published under the W3C patent policy by this working group, though that doesn't require technical work happening in W3C. It's also good to have Microsoft's participation, and that does require technical work. On the other hand, the WHATWG process is more light-weight, although the W3C has been improving. The WHATWG is also in many ways more open to community input because Web developers don't have to go through the hoops of becoming an invited expert and proving that it's not reasonable for them to pay W3C membership fees. But it's good to have the W3C's patent policy, and participation from companies who aren't comfortable in a group that doesn't have such a patent policy. So I guess I don't feel that this is an obvious thing to ask for. -David -- π L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ π π’ Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ π Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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