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<h1>W3C Editor's Draft Process Document</h1>
- <h2 class="notoc">28 July 2016 Editor's Draft</h2>
+ <h2 class="notoc">31 July 2016 Editor's Draft</h2>
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<dt>Latest Editor's version:</dt>
<dd> <a href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/raw-file/default/cover.html">https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/raw-file/default/cover.html</a></dd>
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Editor's draft for the proposed next version of the W3C Process Document. This document is based on the 1 September 2015
Process.</p>
- <p>This draft is offered to the Advisory Committee, W3C Community and the Public for information, prior to any formal
- AC review on whether to adopt this as the new operative Process document.
- Further revision to the Process is expected as needed.</p>
+ <p>This draft is for review by the W3C Advisory Board, to determine whether to endorse it for general review by the
+ Advisory Committee, W3C Community and the Public prior to a formal Advisory Committee review on whether to adopt this as the
+ new operative Process document. If the document is accepted by the Advisory Board and the Advisory Committee,
+ Further revision to the Process is expected to occur in a new version.</p>
- <p>This draft makes further editorial changes to clarify:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Rights and obligations of members who are themselves Consortia or have members: "Member Consortia"</li>
- <li>The voting mechanism for Advisory Board and TAG elections</li>
- <li>The process for marking an Obsolete Recommendation as no longer Obsolete</li>
- <li>Requirements when a charter continues work on a document that has already been published as a Reference Draft
- or Candidate Recommendation.</li>
- </ul>
+ <p>This draft removes an informative statement about conferences, and a statemnt that the Advisory Committee
+ <em class="rfc2119">may</em> appeal decisions other than those defined in this Process. It also replaces the diagrams
+ showing progression of Technical Reports with versions meant to be more accessible to a wider range of users.</p>
+
+ <p>The 28 July draft had further editorial changes to clarify "Member Consortia", voting mechanisms for elections,
+ process for marking an Obsolete Recommendation as no longer Obsolete and requirements when a charter continues work
+ on a document that has already been published as a Reference Draft or Candidate Recommendation.</p>
<p>A <a href="#changes">change history</a> based on the 1 September 2015 Process Document is provided.</p>
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Kevin Fleming (Bloomberg), Virginia Fournier (Apple), Virginie Galindo (Gemalto),
Daniel Glazman (Disruptive Innovations), Michael Geldblum (Oracle), Jeff Jaffe (W3C), Jay Junichi Kishigami (NTT),
Mark Nottingham, Peter Patel-Schneider, Scott Peterson (Google), Delfí Ramírez, Florian Rivoal, Wendy Seltzer (W3C),
- David Singer (Apple), Geoffrey Snedden, Josh Soref,
+ David Singer (Apple), Geoffrey Snedden, Josh Soref, Ralph Swick (W3C),
Léonie Watson (The Paciello Group), Ben Wilson, Chris Wilson (Google), Rigo Wenning (W3C), Helene Workman (Apple),
Judy Zhu 茱滴 (Alibaba), Steve Zilles (Adobe).</p>
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<h3>Current draft</h3>
<ul>
+ <li>Replace diagrams of Recommendation track with new versions to improve accessibility
+ - section <a href="#recs-and-notes">6.1.1</a> and section <a href="#rec-modify">6.7</a></li>
+ <li>Remove mention of appeal for decisions not defined in the Process
+ - section <a href="#rec-rescind">7.2</a></li>
+ <li>Remove statement that W3C does not organise conferences
+ - section <a href="#GAEvents">8</a></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Between the <a href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/raw-file/9827cf0fed91/cover.html">28 July 2016 draft</a> and the <a href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/raw-file/80f98ce79b35/cover.html">18 July 2016 draft</a>:</h3>
+
+ <ul>
<li>Further editorial clarification that an Obsolete Recommendation can be "unobsoleted"
- section <a href="#rec-rescind">6.9</a></li>
<li>More clarification for charters which continue work that has already had an Exclusion Opportunity