Yeah, from my not-super-informed perspective this is the primary benefit we get from W3C publication of stuff that's developed elsewhere.
Most development seems to happen under the WHATWG, which hosts the specs that implementors look at and the umbrella under which they discuss. The W3C then occasionally publishes arbitrary snapshots, which don't have any particular technical utility but, by virtue of being published, prevent any of the (many) members of the W3C from claiming patent infringement at some later point. The only downside of this admittedly-odd model seems to be the confusion that results when somebody believes that the W3C publications have technical utility. On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:10 AM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 2016-10-11 14:49 +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: > > > Speaking as someone who is at best a consumer of WebIDL, what's the > argument > > > for doing a snapshot at this time? > > > > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2016JulSep/0004.html > > is presumably the argument. Those pointing out this argument is flawed > > have given up on that mailing list so now they get to proceed. > > The other (more important, in my opinion) piece of the argument is > that it's worth advancing things to Recommendation every so often so > that it's unambiguous that they're covered by the W3C's patent > policy. > > -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) > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
