Ian Hickson wrote:
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....
"Freezing" the protocol by having implementations being shipped *now* seems to be a problem if the protocol is supposed to become a work item of a future IETF WG.
BR, Julian
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