Editorial cleanups, mostly from Ian's email http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2013Sep/0018.html
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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 23 September 2013</h2>
+ Draft 3 October 2013</h2>
<dl>
<!--dt>Latest published version:</dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/HTML-longdesc">http://www.w3.org/TR/HTML-longdesc</a></dd-->
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
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
- Group</a>. Issues related to this proposal are tracked in that
+ Group</a>. Issues related to this proposal are recorded in that
group's issue tracker using the product "<a href="https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/products/1">Document
Lifecycle (chapter 7)</a>"</p>
Major changes:
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
recommendation, and ends 4 weeks after the Working group has
provisional approval for a Request to publish as a W3C
Recommendation.</li>
- <li>The director is required to address AC review comments <strong>publicly</strong>,
+ <li>The Director is required to address AC review comments <strong>publicly</strong>,
2 weeks <em>before</em> publication of a Recommendation.</li>
<li>And it is in HTML5</li>
</ul>
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
considered positive evidence of wide review. A recommended practice is
making a specific announcement to other W3C Working Groups as well as the
general public that a group proposes to enter Last Call Candidate
- Recommendation in e.g. approximately four weeks, . By contrast a generic
+ Recommendation in e.g. approximately four weeks. By contrast a generic
statement in a document requesting review at any time is likely not to be
considered as sufficient evidence that the group has solicited wide
review. </p>
@@ -441,14 +441,14 @@
</ol>
<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> refuse permission to advance
+ <p>The Director <em class="rfc2119">may</em> decline a request to advance
in maturity level, requiring a Working Group to conduct further work, and
<em class="rfc2119">may</em> require the specification to return to a
lower <a href="#maturity-level">maturity level</a>. The Director <em class="rfc2119">must</em>
<span class="from">(was in 7.4.6)</span> inform the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/organization.html#AC">Advisory
- Committee</a> and group Chairs when a technical report has been refused
- permission to advance in maturity level and returned to a Working Group
- for further work.</p>
+ 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>
<h4 id="working-draft">7.4.1 Working Draft</h4>
<h5>7.4.1.a <a name="first-wd" id="first-wd">First Public Working Draft</a></h5>
<h4> </h4>
@@ -469,12 +469,12 @@
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>].</p>
- <p class="new">A working group <em class="rfc2119">should</em> publish a
+ <h5 id="revised-wd">7.4.1b Revised Public Working Drafts</h5>
+ <p class="new">A Working Group <em class="rfc2119">should</em> publish a
Working Draft to the W3C Technical Reports page every 6 months, or sooner
when there have been significant changes to the document that would
- benefit from review from beyond the Working Group<em class="rfc2119"></em>.<span
- class="from">(was must in @@ch4?)</span> </p>
- <h5 id="revised-wd">7.4.1b Revised Public Working Drafts</h5>
+ benefit from review from beyond the Working Group<em class="rfc2119"></em>.
+ </p>
<p>To publish a revised Working draft, a Working Group <span class="from">(copied
since this is not a new maturity level)</span> </p>
<ul>
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@
as a W3C Recommendation. <span class="from">(was 7.4.4)</span> </p>
<p>If there was any <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#def-Dissent"
rel="glossary" title="Definition of Dissent"><span class="dfn-instance">dissent</span></a>
- in Advisory Committee reviews, the director <span class="new"><em class="rfc2119">must</em>
+ in Advisory Committee reviews, the Director <span class="new"><em class="rfc2119">must</em>
publish the substantive content of the dissent to W3C and the general
public</span> and <em class="rfc2119">must</em> <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#formal-address">formally
address</a> the comment <span class="new">at least 14 days before
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@
and in particular <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy#sec-Requirements">section
5</a> (bullet 10) and <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy#sec-PAG-conclude">section
7.5</a>. <span class="changed">A Working Group </span><span class="changed"><em
- class="rfc2119">may</em> request the director to rescind a
+ class="rfc2119">may</em> request the Director to rescind a
Recommendation which was a deliverable, or the Director </span><span class="changed"><em
class="rfc2119">may</em> directly propose to rescind a Recommendation.
</span><span class="from">(was "the Director calls for review when
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@
</ol>
<p>If there was any <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#def-Dissent"
rel="glossary" title="Definition of Dissent"><span class="dfn-instance">dissent</span></a>
- in Advisory Committee reviews, the director <span class="new"><em class="rfc2119">must</em>
+ in Advisory Committee reviews, the Director <span class="new"><em class="rfc2119">must</em>
publish the substantive content of the dissent to W3C <strong>and the
public</strong></span>, and <em class="rfc2119">must</em> <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#formal-address">formally
address</a> the comment <span class="new">at least 14 days before