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Web Access Control (WAC)
https://solid.github.io/web-access-control-spec/
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This document should not present itself as a "Candidate Recommendation" #120

Closed pchampin closed 10 months ago

pchampin commented 12 months ago

The term "Candidate Recommendation" is not defined, AFAICT, in the Solid Process, and is very much loaded with W3C REC-track documents. This could be perceived as a malicious attempt to give to this document a standing that it does not have.

csarven commented 12 months ago

Right that it could be perceived that way, as with anything else. I can assure you that nothing malicious was intended for the W3C community by publishing a document under solidproject.org (you know... anyone can say anything about anything kind of applies here. :))

That said, correct that it is not defined per se besides being of course influenced by W3C's document statuses, where we use "pre-release" (based on Semantic Versioning) as described in https://github.com/solid/specification/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#versioned-technical-report . (This was a Solid Editors Team decision part of the Solid Process in the past but it is no longer applicable in the CG given its own charter: https://www.w3.org/community/solid/charter/ ).

So, happy to follow up and use different codes for pre-release (or no pre-release) and no significant well-known W3C document statuses to not further confuse anyone. You'll see the changes in CONTRIBUTING and in WAC ED soon..

Thanks.

koalie commented 12 months ago

I can assure you that nothing malicious was intended

I am not aware that there is suspicion. Thanks @csarven

csarven commented 11 months ago

Just FYI that I've updated the pre-release example in https://github.com/solid/specification/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#versioned-technical-report from "WD" to "CG-DRAFT". Let me know if that suffices for you and that we can close this issue.

Moreover, https://solidproject.org/TR/2022/wac-20220705 is the only versioned specification that's marked as a CR. As mentioned/agreed, future Solid specifications will not use terminology from the W3C Recommendation track.

Note also that the editor's draft of the specification is only marked as ED: https://solid.github.io/web-access-control-spec/ . When a new snapshot of that specification is made, it'll be a CG-DRAFT (or off chance CG-FINAL).

On a related note to ED, please note this issue as it requests for clarification on W3C Process whether CGs can have an "ED" even: https://github.com/w3c/tr-pages/issues/102

pchampin commented 11 months ago

Thanks a lot for these changes. I'm ok with closing this issue.