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<li><a href="#further-reading">Further reading</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="rec-advance">7.1 W3C Technical Reports</h3>
+ <p>Please note that <dfn>publishing</dfn> as used in this document refers
+ to producing a version which is listed as a W3C Technical Report on its <a
+ href="http://www.w3.org/TR">Technical Reports page http://www.w3.org/TR</a>.</p>
<p>This chapter describes the formal requirements for publishing and
- maintaining a W3C Recommendation or Note. </p>
+ maintaining a W3C Recommendation or Note.</p>
<p>Typically a series of Working Drafts are published, each of which refines
a document under development to complete the scope of work envisioned by a
Working Group's charter. For a technical specification, once review
@@ -256,6 +259,9 @@
Interest Group, nor are their contents endorsed in any way by W3C.</p>
<h3 id="requirements-and-definitions">7.2 General requirements and
definitions</h3>
+ <p>Please note that <dfn>publishing</dfn> as used in this document refers
+ to producing a version which is listed as a W3C Technical Report on its <a
+ href="http://www.w3.org/TR">Technical Reports page http://www.w3.org/TR</a>.</p>
<h4 id="general-requirements">7.2.1 General requirements for Technical
Reports</h4>
<p>Every document published as part of the technical report development
@@ -325,8 +331,8 @@
<li><em class="rfc2119">should</em> document known implementation.</li>
</ul>
<p>For a First Public Working Draft there is no "previous maturity level",
- so many requirements do not apply and approval is normally fairly
- automatic.. For later stages, especially transition to Candidate or
+ so many requirements do not apply, and approval is normally fairly
+ automatic. For later stages, especially transition to Candidate or
Proposed Recommendation, there is generally a formal review meeting to
ensure the requirements have been met before Director's approval is given.</p>
<h4 id="doc-reviews">7.2.3 Reviews and Review Responsibilities</h4>
@@ -407,12 +413,14 @@
<dd>These changes <span class="rfc2119">may</span> affect conformance to
the specification. A change that affects conformance is one that:
<ul>
- <li>turns conforming data, processors, or other conforming agents into
- non-conforming agents, or</li>
- <li>turns non-conforming agents into conforming ones, or</li>
+ <li>makes conforming data, processors, or other conforming agents
+ become non-conforming according to the new version, or</li>
+ <li>makes non-conforming data, processors, or other agents become
+ conforming, or</li>
<li>clears up an ambiguity or under-specified part of the
- specification in such a way that an agent whose conformance was once
- unclear becomes clearly conforming or non-conforming.</li>
+ specification in such a way that data, a processor, or an agent
+ whose conformance was once unclear becomes clearly either conforming
+ or non-conforming.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>4. New features</dt>
@@ -539,7 +547,8 @@
4</a> of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy">W3C
Patent Policy</a> [<a href="refs.html#ref-patentpolicy">PUB33</a>]. Note
that approval is <em>expected</em> to be fairly simple compared to
- getting approval for a transition to Candidate Recommendation.</p>
+ getting approval for a transition from Working Draft to Candidate
+ Recommendation.</p>
<p>In addition the Working Group:</p>
<ul>
<li><em class="rfc2119">must</em> show that the revised specification
@@ -751,12 +760,12 @@
Recommendation.</li>
<li><em class="rfc2119">should</em> document known implementation.</li>
</ul>
- <p>In addition a Working Group requesting to rescind</p>
+ <p>In addition a Working Group requesting to rescind a Recommendation</p>
<ul>
<li><em class="rfc2119">must</em> show that the request to rescind has
received <a href="#wide-review">wide review</a></li>
</ul>
- <p>In addition the Director, if proposing to rescind</p>
+ <p>In addition the Director, if proposing to rescind a Recommendation</p>
<ul>
<li><em class="rfc2119">must</em> show that the request to rescind is
based on public comment</li>