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<h1 class="title" id="title">Recommendation Track Process, draft proposal</h1>
<h2 id="w3c-working-draft-20-september-2012"><abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium"></abbr>Editors'
- Draft 9 October 2013</h2>
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<p>This is a revised draft proposal to replace the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html">current
chapter 7 of the W3C process document</a> with a more effective W3C
Specification life cycle following the meeting of the W3C Advisory
- Board Process Task Force on 7 October 2013. This document is an
- editor's draft for the Advisory Board but does not yet fully reflect
- consensus. The Task Force proposed to request that the Advisory Board
- consider, at its 14 October meeting, recommending the content of this
- draft for adoption by the Advisory Committee as a replacement for the
- existing Chapter 7.</p>
- <p>An earlier version was first proposed to the W3C Advisory Board on 13
+ Board 14 October 2013. This document is an editor's draft for the
+ Advisory Board but does not yet fully reflect consensus. The Advisory
+ Board proposed, at its 14 October meeting, recommending the content of
+ this draft (although the last version they saw was the 9 October draft)
+ as a "Last Call" draft proposed for adoption by the Advisory Committee
+ as a replacement for the existing Chapter 7. Review will take place
+ over several weeks, including the week of W3C's TPAC meeting (10-15
+ November), before a formal decision on adoption is made.</p>
+ <p>An initial version was first proposed to the W3C Advisory Board on 13
May 2013 as a possible replacement for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html">current
chapter 7 of the W3C process document</a>, and a <a href="http://yadi.sk/d/Zikwkr385JG8f">subsequent
version</a> was <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2013May/0023.html">proposed</a>
to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/">W3C Process
Community Group</a> on 29 May 2013 by Charles Nevile <<a href="mailto:chaals@yandex-team.ru">chaals@yandex-team.ru</a>>
- for discussion. The Advisory Board has agreed to make all editor's
- drafts public, to enable broad input. However, following the existing
- process, the Advisory Board retains formal responsibility for
- decisions on what it proposes to the Advisory Committee, and the
- adoption of any change to the process will follow the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/processdoc.html#GAProcess">existing
- process for such changes</a>.</p>
+ for discussion. Subsequent editor's drafts have been public, to enable
+ broad input. However, following the existing process, the Advisory
+ Board retains formal responsibility for decisions on what it proposes
+ to the Advisory Committee, and the adoption of any change to the
+ process will follow the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/processdoc.html#GAProcess">existing
+ process for such changes</a> subject to the resolution of <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/39">ISSUE-39</a>.</p>
<p>I am grateful to the W3C Advisory Board, the W3C Process Community
- Group, Art Barstow, Robin Berjon, Wayne Carr, Marcos Cáceres, Ian
- Hickson, Ian Jacobs, Chris Lilley, Ralph Swick, Anne van Kesteren, and
- many people I have forgotten to acknowledge for suggestions, comments
- and discussions the helped me sort out my thinking, and to Ora Lassila
- for the image that illustrates the normal process of a W3C
+ Group, Art Barstow, Robin Berjon, Wayne Carr, Marcos Cáceres, Ivan
+ Herman, Ian Hickson, Ian Jacobs, Chris Lilley, Ralph Swick, Anne van
+ Kesteren, Steve Zilles, and many people I have forgotten to
+ acknowledge for suggestions, comments and discussions the helped me
+ sort out my thinking, and to Ora Lassila for the original version of
+ the image that illustrates the normal process of a W3C
Recommendation-track document. </p>
<p>Please send comments on this document to, or participate in, the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/">W3C Process Community