FYI, as Philippe announced a few days ago, the HTMLWG's new charter [1]
includes DOM4:
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The new charter includes:
* An Dual License experiment for some specifications:
http://www.w3.org/2013/09/html-charter.html#documentlicense
* The addition of the DOM4 specification
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Re the rationale for moving this spec to HTMLWG, the following
(unfortunately, Member-only) information was provided to Members:
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The Director made one additional change to this charter as a result of
discussion: to move the DOM4 specification from the charter of the Web
Applications Working Group to the HTML Working Group. The decision is
the result of several considerations:
* The DOM4 specification has not been updated by the Web Applications
Working Group since December 2012.
* The HTML5 specification has a strong dependency on DOM4, so to
complete HTML5 on time, we need DOM4 to advance.
* At the June AC Meeting [2] we sought input on which specifications
could usefully move to the HTML Working Group as part of
this experiment. As a result of conversations, it became clear
that DOM4 was the primary candidate.
* The Chairs of both the HTML Working Group and the Web Applications
Working Group have indicated that they support this move.
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Philippe, Robin, Yves - please clarify if the dual license will apply to
the HTMLWG's DOM4 spec and the plan for the spec's Editor(s). My
expectation is that www-dom will continue to be used for DOM4 so please
confirm that too.
-Thanks, AB
[1] <http://www.w3.org/2013/09/html-charter.html>
