> On 3 Jun 2016, at 2:28 AM, John Foliot <john.fol...@deque.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marcos,
> 
> While it may feel spammy to you, this is a long-standing part of the W3C 
> Consensus process, and generally speaking all CfCs include the following:
> 
> "Positive responses are preferred and encouraged, silence will be considered 
> as assent."
> 
> 
> On the surface, and in principle, I disagree that the "only thing that 
> matters is objections", as visible signs of strong support matter too. 
> Receiving a handful of +1 emails is to me an acceptable process (unless this 
> group chooses to use another means of confirming consensus: perhaps WBS 
> surveys or similar?)

That would be great. Just anything but +1 emails please. 

> 
> JF
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:14 AM, <mar...@marcosc.com> wrote:
>> Can we please kindly stop the +1s spam? It greatly diminishes the value of 
>> this mailing list.
>> 
>> For the purpose of progressing a spec, the only thing that matters is 
>> objections.
>> 
>> > On 3 Jun 2016, at 12:36 AM, Mona Rekhi <mona.re...@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> > Mona Rekhi
>> > SSB BART Group
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Léonie Watson [mailto:t...@tink.uk]
>> > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2016 8:48 AM
>> > To: 'public-webapps WG' <public-webapps@w3.org>
>> > Subject: CFC: Request to move HTML5.1 to Candidate Recommendation (CR)
>> >
>> > Hello WP,
>> >
>> > This is a call for consensus to request that W3C publish the current HTML 
>> > Working Draft (WD) as a Candidate Recommendation (CR). It has been posted 
>> > to public-webapps@w3.org as the official email for this WG.
>> >
>> > Please reply to this thread on public-webapps@w3.org  no later than end of 
>> > day on 10 June. Positive responses are preferred and encouraged, silence 
>> > will be considered as assent.
>> >
>> > The current HTML5.1 WD [1] improves upon HTML5. It includes updates that 
>> > make it more reliable, more readable and understandable, and a better 
>> > match for reality. Substantial changes between HTML5 and HTML5.1 can be 
>> > found in the spec [2].
>> >
>> > When a specification moves to CR it triggers a Call For Exclusions, per 
>> > section 4 of the W3C Patent Policy [3]. No substantive additions can be 
>> > made to a specification in CR without starting a new Call for Exclusions, 
>> > so we will put HTML5.1 into "feature freeze". It is possible to make 
>> > editorial updates as necessary, and features marked "At Risk" may be 
>> > removed if found not to be interoperable.
>> >
>> > The following features are considered "at risk". If we cannot identify at 
>> > least two shipping implementations, they will be marked "at risk" in the 
>> > CR and may be removed from the Proposed Recommendation.
>> >
>> > keygen element. [issue 43]
>> > label as a reassociatable element [issue 109] Fixing requestAnimationFrame 
>> > to 60Hz, not implementation-defined [issues 159/375/422] 
>> > registerContentHandler [Issue 233] inputmode attribute of the input 
>> > element [issue 269] autofill of form elements [issue 372] menu, menuitem 
>> > and context menus. [issue 373] dialog element [issue 427] Text tracks 
>> > exposing in-band metadata best practices [Issue 461] datetime and 
>> > datatime-local states of the input element [Issue 462]
>> >
>> > Please share implementation details for any of these features on Github. 
>> > To mark other features "at risk", please identify them by 10th June 
>> > (ideally by filing an issue and providing a test case).
>> >
>> > At the same time we move HTML5.1 into CR, we plan to continue updating the 
>> > Editor's Draft, and in the next few weeks we expect to post a Call for 
>> > Consensus to publish it as the First Public Working Draft of HTML5.2, so 
>> > improving HTML will continue without a pause. It also means that changes 
>> > that didn't make it into
>> > HTML5.1 will not have long to wait before being incorporated into the 
>> > specification.
>> >
>> > Léonie on behalf of the WP chairs and team, and HTML editors.
>> > [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/
>> > [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/changes.html#changes
>> > [3] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exclusion
>> >
>> > [issue 43] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/43
>> > [issue 109] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/109
>> > [issues 159/375/422] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/159 and links 
>> > [issue 233] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/233
>> > [issue 269] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/269
>> > [issue 372] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/372
>> > [issue 373] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/373
>> > [issue 427] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/427
>> > [Issue 461] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/461
>> > [Issue 462] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/462
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > @LeonieWatson tink.uk Carpe diem
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
> 
> 
> 
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> Deque Systems Inc.
> john.fol...@deque.com
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