John,
I am certainly hoping you will give the HTML WG Co-Chairs your point of view and they will give it due consideration.
I will comment on one point you made: On Apr 3, 2008, at 9:30 AM, John Boyer wrote:
As to your characterization of my participation as "active and forceful", I would like to juxtapose the word active with what the TF has been so far, which is inactive. You're not doing any work, man. So of course this will eventually catch the attention of at least one working group chair for whom the ill-named task *force* is supposed to be acting. And it is then a simple matter of physics that *force* must be applied to change the state from inactive to active. But the negative connotation on "forceful" is agitating because I deliberately did not join the TF because I wanted somebody besides me to do the work part. The problem is that it just isn't happening, and it is something that you should be directly involved in fixing and that five other people should be directly involved in fixing as well.
For the record, yes, it's true, the Forms TF has not made great progress on its goals. I readily concede this. And this has been reported to the HTML WG Co-Chairs. However, I believe that of the activity there has been, most of it has been from the HTML WG representatives, Anne, Gregory and myself (for example, driving us to adopt a charter, requesting web space, etc.) Perhaps replacing one or more of the Forms WG members to the Forms TF would help matters.
Also, spurred on by your reminder of our duties, I have tried to start the discussion of architectural consistency, in line with the Forms TF's charter deliverable: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms-tf/2008Apr/0017.html >
Regards, Maciej
