[Standards-JIG] proto-JEP: SVG Whiteboarding

[Boyd Fletcher]

On 8/24/06 1:44 PM, "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter at jabber.org> wrote:

> Boyd Fletcher wrote:
> 
>> can you increase the attachment size w/o moderator approval for the
>> whiteboarding mailing list to 1MB?
> 
> Yow! Can you post the file to an HTTP/FTP URL rather than using email as
> a file transfer method? :-) Or send it to me and I can post it. (Yes,
> I'm weird, I don't like MIME.)
> 

posting for us is heard. sending it to you everytime we make a change would
put a lot of load on you and slow the process down.


>>> Or we can hold a few multi-user chat sessions to work through the issues
>>> in real time. That might be best.
>>> 
>> 
>> how about 10AM EDT August 23rd?
> 
> Sorry, you may have technologies I don't have, but personally I can't go
> back in time. ;-)

damn. I wasn't suppose to mention that technology ;) I meant the 30th.

> 
> How about sometime next week so that people have a chance to assimilate
> the various issues, say Tuesday August 29 at 15:00 UTC?
> 

I can't do Tuesday. can we do another day next week.


>>>> This is
>>>> generally how the W3.org  works and many other standards bodies.
>>> This is not the W3C, with which people on this list do not have direct
>>> experience since it costs many thousands of dollars a year to become a
>>> member of the W3. However, people here do have quite a bit of experience
>>> with the IETF.
>> 
>> the point I was trying to make is that committees are the norm for standards
>> bodies and they generally work fairly well. they maybe slow, but tend to end
>> up with better products in the long term. The W3.org was just an example.
>> 
>>>> we have very early working implementations of what we are doing.
>>> Implementation does not privilege specification.
>> 
>> so what does?  
> 
> Technical excellence. Or so we hope.

well we have some big issues with technical merits of the current one
so.....