Harald,
Thanks for your message:
> There is no procedure to "suspend control of aspects" of a specification,
The proposal would involve ammending the registration of the
text/html media type, incorporating the W3C standards extended
with two attributes of the INPUT element, DEVICE and MAXTIME.
>... the IETF is of the opinion that HTML is not under our control anyway.
I understand that. There might be substantial benefits from
reconsidering those opinions. Within the IETF, public debate
is assured on almost all controversial matters. The W3C,
however, constrains meaningful debate to those willing and able
to pay US$50,000 per year. I agree that there was a point in
the early development of web standards when that constraint was
beneficial. Now, however, with Netscape owned by a company
shipping MSIE, and the stagnation or regression of the core HTML
standards, along with the concerns raised in Norman Solomon's
article, I believe the time has come to return certain aspects
of the control of HTML to the IETF. Even if that view is not
shared by the IETF, I the only way I would not be certain that
a debate on the topic would be healthy for the Internet communty
would be if the W3C were to take an affirmative stand on issues
involving microphone upload for language instruction and
asyncronous audio conferencing.
Cheers,
James