Hi, Folks-
I've submitted the request for <[email protected]>, and I
anticipate that this will be created Monday (tomorrow). Thanks to
everyone for the discussion leading up to this... I'm very happy that
this coordination is going on.
I will announce when the list is ready, with instructions on how folks
can subscribe themselves.
Art, I understand your concern and will ask the Team to look at the
issue of IP risks in this scenario, but in light of public comments in
general, I don't anticipate that this will be a major issue... we will
have to be careful in how we deal with significant and substantive
feature requests, of course.
Regards-
-Doug Schepers
W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
Arthur Barstow wrote (on 9/27/09 5:24 PM):
On Sep 27, 2009, at 7:33 PM, ext Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
ECMA TC39 (the group responsible for ECMAScript) has expressed a
strong interest in having a list for joint discussion with the W3C,
and particularly the Web Apps WG. And they are especially interested
in review of Web IDL. I suggest we set up <[email protected]>
(name suggested by Mark Miller) as a list managed by the Web Apps WG
for both purposes - discussion of Web IDL, and other scripting-related
coordination issues. I think this would be better than the massive
cross-posting we've experienced over the past few days.
Does this sound like a good idea to everyone?
The only concern I have is the potential for an input from someone who
has not agreed to the W3C's Patent Policy (PP) to be included in one of
our specs. In practice, the risk for this scenario for the Web IDL spec
appears to be relatively low. However, at least one of the messages in
one of these related threads implied there may be an impedance mismatch
between ECMA's patent policy and the W3C's PP.
I think we should get some input from the W3C Team here but it appears
the benefits of this proposed list i.e. increased communication between
ECMA and W3C, outweigh the IP risks so you get a tentative Yes from me.
FWIW, I think Doug's earlier proposal to name this list "public-idl" was
good but I am mostly indifferent as to the name and could certainly live
with public-scripting.
Mike, Doug - please pursue creating the list.
-Regards, Art Barstow
If so, how quickly can
we get it done?
Regards,
Maciej
