On May 27, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Doug Schepers wrote:
Hi, Ian-
Thanks for this proposal.
I strongly believe that W3C should be working on this, and over the
last few weeks, Mike Smith and I have been talking to key vendors
and other parties to bring together the proper resources to do this,
including some discussion at Google. We have identified several
interested parties.
In fact, I proposed on the WebApps WG charter to add this
deliverable. However, the Advisory Committee's review of the charter
indicated that the Membership wants this to happen in a dedicated
Geolocation API WG.
The W3C intends to follow through on that, and to allocate Team
resources to this valuable technology. We will announce something
formal soon.
Rest assured that Mike and I are intent on ensuring that there is no
scope creep for this API, and that the Geolocation API WG will take
a pragmatic, vendor-aware approach, and will act quickly.
I could not find record of any such objection in the Advisory
Committee mailing list archives, or any record of an official W3C
decision on this point. As Team contact, could you please explain who
made this decision and on what basis?
Regards,
Maciej
