Re: [hybi] web socket protocol in "last call"?

[Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch>]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> Citing <http://blog.whatwg.org/html5-at-last-call>:
> 
> "There's also a version of the spec called Web Applications 1.0 (for 
> nostalgic reasons) that has all of the above as well as a number of 
> other specs, namely Web Storage, Web Database, Server-sent Events, and 
> the Web Sockets API and protocol, all together in one document. With the 
> exception of the Web Database spec, they're all now in last call at the 
> WHATWG."
> 
> Ian, could you please explain what you mean by "last call" in this 
> context?

We're starting to see implementations of the WebSocket protocol, so I 
wanted to encourage comments from the wider Web authoring community before 
it's too late (i.e. before we are frozen by shipped implementations). In 
the conventions we're using at the WHATWG (based on the W3C terminology), 
the stability of spec sections is goes through First Draft, then Working 
Draft, then Last Call, then Candidate Recommendation. (This corresponds 
roughly to the formal WHATWG stages "Working Draft", "Call For Comments", 
and "Call For Implementations" as described in the WHATWG charter.) You 
can see the state of each section in the WHATWG draft by looking at the 
little boxes in the right hand margin.

HTH,
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