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Agenda of 19 February 2009 TAG teleconference

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1. Convene
   • Chair: Noah, Scribe: Ashok
   • Roll call -- Regrets: Tim
   • Agenda Review - this agenda
   • Future Regrets: 
   • Next Telcon: Propose 26th Feb 2009; Chair: Noah; Scribe: John
   • Future scribes: Larry > Henry > Jonathan
2. Approval of Minutes from previous telcons
   • 12th Feb 2009
3. F2F Logistics (Brief)
   • Goals:
     • Alert group that meeting is < 2 weeks away. Therefore, significant reading materials due in < 1 weeks.
     • Give Ashok an opportunity to provide update on local arrangements (if needed)
     • Answer any other participant questions
4. F2F Content and Agenda Planning (Brief)
   • Goals:
     • Remind group that chair needs help preparing a worthwhile agenda. In particular, the chair solicits input (responses via email please) regarding:
       • Open issues, TAG Finding drafts, etc., that would merit attention at the F2F.
       • Particular proposals for new directions or areas of emphasis for the TAG.
       • The best ways of organizing exploration of those new directions.
       • The best ways of using the F2F to bring incoming members up to speed on existing work, TAG customs, etc.
5. ISSUE-20 (errorHandling-20): What should specifications say about error handling?
   • Background:
     • Per Henry and Larry are to prepare for discussion next week on the 12th, corrected in email exchange with Henry and Larry
     • Note ACTION-199 (assigned to Henry Thompson) Follow up on error handling thread (8 Oct)
   • Goals of this session:
     • Review discussion to date of issues relating to the pros and cons of various ways of providing specifications for error handling for processing of Web document formats.
     • Decide whether the TAG has an ongoing interest in woring in this area, and if so, with what goals.
     • Determine next steps, if any.
6. ISSUE-57 (HttpRedirections-57): The use of HTTP Redirection
   • Background:
     • Extensive email discussion on www-tag@w3.org: what is the appropriate means of requesting and returning a description of a resource as opposed to a representation of the resource (and to what extent are we clear on the distinction?)
     • ACTION-178 (assigned to Jonathan Rees) update draft of finding on uniform access to metadata
     • Discussion on last week's teleconference of ISSUE-36 (siteData-36): Web site metadata improving on robots.txt, w3c/p3p and favicon etc.
     • The chair intends to schedule extensive discussion of issue-57 at the upcoming F2F.
   • Goals of this session:
     • Clarify what we're actually doing under the heading of this issue. There seems to be a lot of multifaceted discussion, but it's not clear that we yet agree on what we're trying to achieve.
     • Detailed technical discussion (optional: we can leave for F2F if that's better).
     • Determine next steps, if any.
7. Pending Review Issues: - The following were on agenda for 5 Feb 2009 and were not discussed:
   • Issues whose closure is pending review - see bottom of  Tracker Agenda page.
     • ISSUE-1 w3cMediaType-1 Should W3C WGs define their own media types? raised 2002-01-09
     • ISSUE-8 namespaceDocument-8 What should a "namespace document" look like? raised 2002-01-14  - 1 open action item
     • ISSUE-35 RDFinXHTML-35 Syntax and semantics for embedding RDF in XHTML raised 2003-02-06
     • ISSUE-51 selfDescribingWeb-51 Well known formats and URI based extensibility. (Finding has been published.)
8. Overdue Action Items:
   • Overdue action in Tracker
9. Any other business