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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:52:30 -0500
Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960912135230.00b6c3f8@spyglass.com>
To: html-wg@w3.org
From: "Eric W. Sink"
Subject: This WG is now closed
The HTML Working Group is chartered firstly to describe, and secondly to
develop, the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The group's work is to be
based on existing practice on the Internet, and will make due reference to
the SGML standard.
from the
charter
of the HTML WG
as of IETF 31, Dec 1994
If you are new to the IETF, you should
probably do some background reading. I recommend:
IETF working groups exist for the sole purpose of drafting, revising, and
reviewing Internet Standards. They have a focused charter and milestones.
In order to conduct the business of the working group effectively, discussion
of items not on the charter is prohibited (this rule is enforced by the working
group chair, and sometimes the members. You have been warned.)
There are a number of other HTML and WWW discussion
forums, such as mailing lists and USENET newsgroups, where discussions
of philosophy, proposed features, and announcements of WWW systems and
resources are welcome.
Mailing List
The business of the working group is conducted on a public mailing list,
<html-wg@w3.org> (formerly html-wg@oclc.org).
Archive of messages from June 14, 1994 to October 14, 1994, dealing with
revisions to the HTML 2.0 specifications.
(source)
Principals
HTML Working Group Chair
Eric Sink esink@spyglass.com
Editor of the HTML 2.n Specification:
Dan Connolly connolly@w3.org
Editor of the 3.n Specification(s)
Dave Raggett dsr@w3.org
Proposing New Features
Those who would propose new features or modify old ones are urged to discuss
their ideas with experienced HTML implementors before going public. In any
case, the following issues should be addressed in any proposal:
a statement of the problem as you see it
a proposed solution
a demonstration that this solution is globally cost-effective without being
locally prohibitive (i.e. the sum of all the effort of deploying this solution
is less than the cost of dealing with the problem with existing technology,
and yet no one party bears too much of the burden. For example, if you require
every information provider to do something, it had better be minimal.)
a discussion of graceful deployment and interoperability issues.
**** NOTE WELL ****
Your ideas will achieve greater credence if you take the time and effort
to disseminate proposals as an internet draft. Don't forget to follow the
internet draft guidelines:
Guidelines
to Authors of Internet-Drafts
"We value your opinion, really we do, but we're going to put a stiff tax
on its expression, so that we won't have to hear it very often."
-name withheld to protect the guilty ;-)
HTML WG
