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<h1 class="title" id="title">Recommendation Track Process draft proposal</h1>
<h2 id="draft-shorthand-status"><abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium"></abbr>Editors'
- Draft 2 February 2014</h2>
+ Draft 5 February 2014</h2>
<dl>
<dt>Current active version:</dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html">http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html</a></dd>
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<p>This is a 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's Chapter 7 Task Force on 3 February 2014. As foreshadowed at
- that meeting and in email to the W3Process Community Group, this draft
- re-establishes a Proposed Recommendation phase, and clarifies the
- requirements for revising a Candidate Recommendation.</p>
+ Specification life cycle. </p>
+ <p>This draft incorporates changes following the meeting of the W3C
+ Advisory Board's Chapter 7 Task Force on 3 February 2014. As
+ foreshadowed at that meeting and in email to the W3Process Community
+ Group, this draft re-establishes a Proposed Recommendation phase, and
+ clarifies the requirements for revising a Candidate Recommendation.</p>
+ <p>Because these are significant changes from recent drafts, careful
+ review is requested. It is quite possible that the changes introduced
+ in the new section 7.6 and in sections 7.5 and 7.7 include some
+ mistakes or new problems that need to be addressed.</p>
<p>This introductory section (before the chapter title below) will be
removed when this chapter is re-incorporated into the full process
document.</p>
@@ -189,14 +194,8 @@
<li><a href="#revised-cr">7.4.1 Revised Candidate Recommendation</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
- <li><a href="#rec-publication">7.5 W3C Recommendation</a>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="#for-all-recs">7.5.1 For all W3C Recommendations</a></li>
- <li><a href="#lcrec-publication">7.5.2 Publishing a Candidate
- Recommendation as a W3C Recommendation</a></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li> <a href="#rec-pr">7.6 Proposed Recommendation</a></li>
+ <li> <a href="#rec-pr">7.5 Proposed Recommendation</a></li>
+ <li> <a href="#rec-publication">7.6 W3C Recommendation</a></li>
<li><a href="#rec-modify">7.7 Modifying a W3C Recommendation</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#errata">7.7.1 Errata Management</a></li>
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</ol>
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<p>W3C <em class="rfc2119">may</em> <a href="#tr-end">end work on a
technical report</a> at any time.</p>
<p>The Director <em class="rfc2119">may</em> decline a request to advance
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accepted as Recommendations. Announcement of a different next step <em
class="rfc2119">should</em> include the reasons why the change in
expectations comes at so late a stage.</dd>
- <dt>Proposed Recommendation</dt>
+ <dt id="RecsPR">Proposed Recommendation</dt>
<dd>A Proposed Recommendation is a document that has been accepted by the
W3C Director as of sufficient quality to become a W3C Recommendation.
This phase establishes a deadline for the Advisory Committee review
@@ -658,8 +651,8 @@
made to a Candidate Recommendation other than to remove features
explicitly identified as "at risk", the Director <em class="rfc2119">must</em>
approve the publication of a revised Candidate Recommendation. This is
- because substantive changes will generally require a new Exclusion Opportunity
- per <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#sec-Exclusion">section
+ because substantive changes will generally require a new Exclusion
+ Opportunity per <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#sec-Exclusion">section
4</a> of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy">W3C
Patent Policy</a> [<a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/refs.html#ref-patentpolicy">PUB33</a>].
Note that approval is <em>expected</em> to be fairly simple compared to
@@ -732,8 +725,6 @@
explain the reasons for that decision. </span></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="rec-publication">7.6 W3C Recommendation</h3>
- <h4 id="for-all-recs"><a id="rec-requirements">7.6.1 For <strong>all</strong>
- W3C Recommendations</a></h4>
<p>In addition to meeting the <a href="#transition-reqs">general
requirements for advancement</a>,</p>
<ul>