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<li><a href="#mozTocId806006">Further reading</a></li>
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<h3 id="rec-advance">7.1 W3C Technical Reports</h3>
+ <p>This chapter describes the formal requirements for publishing and
+ 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
+ suggests the work has been completed and the document is good enough to
+ become a new standard, there will then be a Candidate Recommendation phase
+ allowing review by the W3C membership and to formally collect
+ implementation experience to ensure it works in practice, followed by Publication
+ as a Recommendation.</p>
+ <p>Groups may also publish documents as W3C Notes. The two common purposes
+ for Notes are </p>
+ <ol>
+ <li>to document information that is not a formal technical specification,
+ such as use cases motivating a specification and best practices for its
+ use, and</li>
+ <li>to clarify the status of work that is abandoned, that there is no
+ longer interest in completing it so it should not be assumed that will
+ become a standard.</li>
+ </ol>
+ <p>Some W3C Notes are developed through successive Working Drafts, with an
+ expectation that they will become Notes, while others are simply
+ Published. There are few formal requirements to publish a document as a
+ W3C Note, and they have no standing as a recommendation of W3C but are
+ simply documents preserved for historical reference.</p>
<h4 id="recs-and-notes">7.1.1 Recommendations and Notes</h4>
<p>W3C follows these steps when advancing a technical report to
Recommendation.</p>
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Committee</a> and Working Group Chairs when a Working Group's request
for a specification to advance in maturity level is declined and and the
specification is returned to a Working Group for further work.</p>
- <p class="issue">Add a short explanation of Note track, and how documents
- can go from Rec-track to Note and back, to this section. <a href="http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/59">ISSUE-59</a></p>
<h4 id="maturity-levels">7.1.2 Maturity Levels</h4>
<dl>
<dt id="RecsWD">Working Draft (WD)</dt>
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the decision to advance the technical report.</p>
<h4 id="revised-cr">7.4.1 Revised Candidate Recommendation</h4>
<h3 id="rec-publication">7.5 W3C Recommendation</h3>
- <p class="issue">A better explanation of how a document becomes a
- Recommendation is needed here.</p>
+ <p class="issue">A better explanation of how a document goes from Candidate
+ Recommencation to Recommendation is needed here. <a href="http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/77">ISSUE-77</a></p>
<h4 id="for-all-recs"><a id="rec-requirements">7.5.1 For <strong>all</strong>
W3C Recommendations</a></h4>
<p>In addition to meeting the <a href="#transition-reqs">general
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Policy</a> [<a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/refs.html#ref-patentpolicy">PUB33</a>]
does not specify any licensing requirements or commitments for Working
Group Notes, only for W3C Recommendations.</p>
- <h3 id="rec-rescind">7.8 >Rescinding a W3C Recommendation</h3>
+ <h3 id="rec-rescind">7.8 Rescinding a W3C Recommendation</h3>
<p>W3C <em class="rfc2119">may</em> rescind a Recommendation, for example
if the Recommendation contains many errors that conflict with a later
version or if W3C discovers burdensome patent claims that affect