[Sorry for the wide distribution, but the html-wg@oclc.org mailing list has never really been announced -- this is supposed to be a public review, so I don't want anybody to feel left out.] OK... the stuff is available via FTP, in HTML, Frame, and Postscript. Enclosed you will find: "August 22, 1994 Release Notes" $Id: README.html,v 1.1 1994/08/22 20:07:34 connolly Exp $ ftp://halsoft.com/halsoft/olias/html-19940822/README.html Here are the action items, as I recall: * Decide what format to keep "the truth" in. (if somebody can produce HTML and plaintext from Frame, I suggest frame. Otherwise, I suggest HTML. What a pain!) I spent way too much time on this. I never found anything I was happy with. Locally, the "truth" is a strange Frame/SGML mix. Everything but the tables are in SGML that gets converted back and forth to Frame for editing. The tables never get converted to SGML -- they're external editities. I had hoped to convert the "truth" to a more suitable DTD like the QWERTZ/LaTeX DTD or the Snafu DTD, but... * Document production: figure out how to make plain text, HTML, and postscript, suitable for submission as an RFC Volunteers: <lee@sq.com>, <timbl@info.cern.ch> * Frontmatter: about this document/status/etc. Voluteers: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> * Character set sections: Volunteers: Murray Maloney <murray@sco.com> * Forms sections: Volunteers: Paul Burchard <burchard@horizon.gw.umn.edu> alanb@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Alan Braverman) * HTML/HTTP interaction section: Volunteers: Eric Sink <esink@spyglass.com> * Troll through the archives and find any other unresolved issues * General editorial review Voluteers: Peter Flynn -- HTML educator <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie> "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@simplon.ICS.UCI.EDU> I suggest we proceed with these action items roughly in order. First, we have to figure out some of the document production issues so that folks know what format to do their edits in. Then, the editors proceed in series, thusly: * download the release * edit it to taste * produce postscript and HTML (and eventually text) for review * send mail to html-wg@oclc.org, announcing the anonymous FTP location of the new version * The WG reviews it, and either: * your edits are approved and the next editor starts * your edits are deemed incomplete and you get another try, or * your edits are rejected and the next editor starts from the previous version I listed the volunteers as I remember them. I don't have good notes. Do NOT assume the above listed volunteer has made a commitment based on this notice alone. (i.e. don't assume that because I put a name by an action item that we don't need anybody else's help) I am soliciting new, public commitments of the following form: "I am Fred from WidgetCo. I can commit to an edit of the forms section, starting on or after Aug 30, to be released one week later. I require the frontmatter and document production issues to be resolved before I begin." That is: * who are you? * what will you do? * when can you start? * when can you finish? * what do you need before you start? DON'T send them to me. Send them to the WG at large. This is a public document, a public working group, and a public commitment. p.s. I aplogize for taking so long to release the document. I had hoped to resolve the document production issues before releasing it, but that turned out to be a bad idea. Had I known I was going to punt those issues, I could have released it two weeks ago. p.p.s. HELP! I can use all the help I can get on this, especially with brining folks up to speed, as this group changes from a closed review committee to an open working group, and lots more folks start getting in on the game. I get a lot of "can we add X to HTML?" mail, and as I have warned folks that HTML 2.0 comments may be redistributed, I am just going to forward such questions to the working group, with the understanding that someone in the group will provide a much more patient and thorough explanation than I would. p.p.p.s. This group needs an acting chair for a month or two. TimBL is busy. REALLY busy. And I'd like to get some stuff wrapped up quickly, but I'm in the middle of a product release here at HaL, and I can't commit to drive this train to the station. Anyone? Please? Daniel W. Connolly "We believe in the interconnectedness of all things" Software Engineer, Hal Software Systems, OLIAS project (512) 834-9962 x5010 <connolly@hal.com> http://www.hal.com/%7Econnolly/index.html
At the July, 1994 Toronto IETF meeting, I presented a draft of the HTML 2.0 specification in hopes that it would be considered for submission as an internet RFC. The working group decided that the document was not ready for publication -- that it needed significant editorial, as well as minor technical, polishing.
In spite of the fact that my resources for this project had been exhausted, I agreed to coordinate the revisions. This was a mistake. My resources for this project have really been exhausted.
I am releasing the HTML 2.0 materials, such as they are:
My notes on all this are very much scattered, but here's what comes to mind:
For more information, see the HTML 2.0 review materials.