-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Can a CR be published as a PR if one of its Normative
references is a CR?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:35:00 +0200
From: ext Ian Jacobs <i...@w3.org>
To: Barstow Art (Nokia-CIC/Boston) <art.bars...@nokia.com>
CC: team-webapps, Philippe Le Hegaret <p...@w3.org>, Marcos Caceres
<marc...@opera.com>, Robin Berjon <ro...@berjon.com>, w3c-archive
On 23 Jun 2010, at 11:35 AM, Arthur Barstow wrote:
Hi All,
My understanding is that after a CR passes all of its exit criteria,
it could be published as a PR if all of the CRs normative
dependencies were at least CRs. This PR would then be parked in PR
until every dependency was at least at PR.
The specific case that led to my understanding is the MWBP spec that
was published as a PR on 2-Nov-2006 but did not advance to REC until
29-Jul-2008, while the MWBP PR waited for XHTML Basic 1.1 to advance.
However, based on some recent discussions, where the context is the
Widget Packaging and Configuration CR, my understanding may be
wrong, i.e. this CR shall not be published as a PR until all of its
normative references are also at least PR.
Would some please clarify this?
Let me know if this helps:
Q. Can my spec advance to REC if I have normative refs to drafts?
A. There is no absolute rule here. The WG makes a proposal (via the
spec) that the community reviews as part of the Rec track. Our
transition process has a reporting requirement, so the Director is
aware of references to unstable material. See
http://www.w3.org/Guide/transitions
for more information.
Other notes:
* It is nonetheless considered "unwise" to refer to unstable
material. So we recommend against it.
* There are differing opinions on whether we should publish PRs and
park them while references mature. Recently (with CSS3 selectors [1])
we made a decision to leave the thing at PR while references mature
BUT we also told the community that the spec was "Approved" as a Rec
but delayed [2]. The spec sets a similar expectation.
_ Ian
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/PR-css3-selectors-20091215/
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2010AprJun/0014.html
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