On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Murray Maloney wrote:
At 02:22 PM 4/20/2007 -0400, David Dailey wrote:
This made me wonder something:
Maciej has written http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/
2007Apr/0911.html concerning the proposed principles that
>You can think of them as self-imposed amendments to the charter, so
>that we don't have to pick through the often vague language of the
>charter for justification. Since they are self-imposed, they are
also
>less difficult to add or remove in response to feedback. All it
takes
>is a decision of the group, not the full re-chartering process which
>is slow and disruptive.
Has a W3C group ever modified its own charter in this way? If so
was it done by majority rule?
I am not sure Maciej was being literal or not, but I did not
interpret his suggestion
as being an actual amendment to the charter as much as a virtual
amendment.
The XML Schema WG adopted a set of design principles as did the XML
WG.
I was not being literal. I agree that we do not want to open a re-
chartering rathole and should follow the precedent of other groups.
Regards,
Maciej
