My apologies for including HTML WG in that last message. I mean to
only include this recipient list.
On Feb 26, 2009, at 7:26 PM, Robert J Burns wrote:
Hi Sam,
On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:
Robert J Burns wrote:
[snip]
I request that no replies to either Robert's email or mine copy the
public-html mailing list.
If there are concerns about my suitability as chair, please forward
them to Philippe Le Hégaret. If you wish such interactions to be a
matter of the public record, feel free to copy www-archive[2].
Again, I think you're attributing words and sentiments to me that I
did not express. I said nothing in my email that suggested you were
unsuitable to be chair. On the contrary, on other fora I have
expressed my joy at hearing of your appointment. What I said in a
nutshell was that it is better for a chair – including you as a
suitable chair – to be even-handed in stopping unproductive and
inappropriate activity. Clearly we all have biases, but as a chair,
one needs to be able to control those biases and be even-handed.
Moreover, by taking and characterizing my remarks as a personal
attack – which I had no intention to make it one – it raises the
level of contention rather than lowering it. And the HTML WG, more
than others I've seen, certainly needs the level of contention
diminished.
Take care,
Rob
