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repository to track meta-work. PING webpages are maintained at https://github.com/w3c/ping
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Needs Motivation and Background section #30

Closed plehegar closed 1 year ago

plehegar commented 1 year ago

Motivation and Background section is empty and we need one

samuelweiler commented 1 year ago

Substantively, is this needed here? (Maybe it is, to explain this history of IG-->WG, as @svgeesus suggests?) If not, don't merely add duplicative text? (As context, see https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/issues/383#issuecomment-1582358689)

svgeesus commented 1 year ago

Substantively, we had multiple AC reps tell us to stop putting historical background and motivating use cases into the Scope section, because every word in Scope gets pored over by lawyers determining RF patent exposure while the rest is not. That was the reason for the template change.

If AC Reps keep seeing charters which ignore their feedback, they either get annoyed and become more assertive or resigned and less involved. Neither is a desirable outcome.

jyasskin commented 1 year ago

FWIW, @svgeesus, I don't see Sam asking to add extra things into the Scope section, just to avoid duplicating information into the Motivation and Background section. I think your comments are completely compatible, and 👍 to both of them.

plehegar commented 1 year ago

See https://github.com/w3cping/administrivia/commit/028b7307d3e76779d5cdec73186ba9e959b83533

npdoty commented 1 year ago

Added a motivation and background section which gives justification for the dual-sided mission and some context about the shift from PING. This is non-duplicative of the mission, and gives some of the history.

Closing this issue as the section has been added now, but of course reviewers can open issues for comments on the text of that section.