Emergency services

[wareid]

Making some amendments to the suggested change from PR #141

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[nigelmegitt]

I prefer #141 to this alternative proposal. The term "emergency services" already might include law enforcement or might not, and gives adequate flexibility, without making the further tweaks proposed here.

[nigelmegitt]

I request that we reconsider #141 as being suitable.

[TzviyaSiegman]

Thanks @nigelmegitt. We agreed to this at today's meeting (minutes https://www.w3.org/2020/06/30-pwe-minutes.html]). Please review the minutes for our discussion about why we are including both phrases.

[nigelmegitt]

@TzviyaSiegman indeed I did review the minutes before adding my "request changes review" and sent a note to the reflector explaining this position, archived at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pwe/2020Jun/0013.html

[tantek]

Ok with "local services". Not ok with keeping "law enforcement" explicitly. As others have noted, "emergency services" is already all-inclusive (including law enforcement where applicable/desired), so there is no positive need to explicitly mention, and plenty of negative reasons to explicitly not mention.

[cwilso]

I would +1 Nigel's comments (both the short one above, and the longer version in archive). I do not think removing "law enforcement" in favor of just "emergency services" weakens the text, but I do think it would make some potential users of this text more comfortable.

In other words, I would prefer to abandon this PR in favor of #141. Barring that, I would encourage refiling it for future revision, but I see no need to wait, and potential for harm in doing so.

[TzviyaSiegman]

Closing in favor of #141