I've received a request which I find very worrying and am writing to
this list in order to engage in a discussion with whoever it is that
has caused the request to be made. I've been asked what are my
views about the W3C Note "Date and Time Formats" being changed to
accommodate various DC requirements. The examples given showed that
the changes would result in the Note no longer being a profile of
ISO 8601. I responded as follows:
I have no objection to updating the Note, but would want to be
involved. The Note is a profile of ISO 8601 and I would be
strongly opposed to any proposal which would make it not be a
profile of that standard. I get the impression from your mail
that, indeed, the DC folks want something entirely different.
This Note is referenced from many places (Google shows 409 links
to the Note). If DC wants something that is not ISO 8601
compliant, they are at liberty to write another Note. It would
not be acceptable for all the documents that reference the Note
to suddenly find themselves referencing something entirely
different.
Please can the person(s) or group(s) in the DC community that have
asked for these changes (i) make themselves known and (ii) respond
to the concerns I've expressed above.
Thanks.
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
Misha Wolf
Standards Manager
Product and Platform Architecture Group
Reuters
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