On Wednesday 2017-07-12 12:20 -0700, L. David Baron wrote:
> On Wednesday 2017-07-12 06:48 -0500, Lars Bergstrom wrote:
> > There is some contention in the WebVR community group around the submission
> > of this charter proposal, as there is currently no public support from any
> > of the implementers in making this transition away from a community group:
> > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webvr/2017Jul/0056.html
> 
> That's a little confusing to me given that there has been a good bit
> of movement towards shipping WebVR in release versions of browsers.
> 
> Shipping things to the release channel (as opposed to just users on
> nightly/beta channels or users who turn on experimental features)
> means that Web content could start depending on the features at any
> time, which means we might be stuck with them in their current form.
> 
> That suggests (if my understanding of the state of shipping to
> release users is correct) that it's likely time for the
> standardization process to also admit that it's no longer just
> experimenting, but actually shipping real stuff.
> 
> -David
> 
> > I would certainly not support at this time and, depending on the
> > conversations in that group and timing of the below deadline, may suggest
> > that we oppose.

So the deadline is now approaching.  Is there any update here?

I still think opposing this charter because the group should still
be in the incubation phase would be inconsistent with our shipping
and promotion of WebVR.

-David

> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:23 PM, L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > The W3C is proposing a new charter for:
> > >
> > >   WebVR Working Group
> > >   https://www.w3.org/2017/07/vr-wg-charter.html
> > >   https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2017Jul/0002.html
> > >
> > > Mozilla has the opportunity to send support, comments, or objections
> > > through Friday, August 18.  If this is work that we want to see
> > > happen at W3C, we should explicitly support it; if there are things
> > > we think should be different about the charter, this is the time to
> > > say so.
> > >
> > > Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should
> > > say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should
> > > support or oppose it.

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