On Tuesday 2015-07-21 12:14 +0100, James Graham wrote: > On 21/07/15 11:29, Ms2ger wrote: > > >This entire Activity is a distraction from the real needs of the web, > >and if the W3C is serious about its motto, it should focus on those > >rather than providing support and hosting conferences for people's > >petty side projects that have no bearing on the web. > > > >However, I'll already be happy if we can kill the XForms zombie. > >Apparently they've had a group in plh's Domain for years, and never > >produced anything of consequence, and now that he's finally managed to > >kick them out, they want to return through this back door. If the > >handful of people who still care about it want to continue wasting > >each other's time, they can always start a Community Group, or move to > >another standards development organization. > > I agree with everything Ms2ger said. I don't think that working on non-web > technologies is helpful to the W3C's stated mission, and I think we should > encourage those who wish to develop such standards to do so at other venues, > leaving the W3C free to give much-needed focus to web-related work.
I think it might be easier to make the argument that the groups that are nearly inactive (e.g., EXI, XForms, as far as I can tell) should be ended than to make that argument for groups that actually have active participation and interest (whether relevant to the Web or not). I'm not sure it's really a fight I want to take on right now, though. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 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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