W3C recently published the following proposal to revise the W3C process, which is effectively in the "Proposed Recommendation" stage right now: http://www.w3.org/2014/05/Process-20140506/
The document contains a description of the major changes in the "Status of this Document" section. The most substantive change is to merge the Last Call and Candidate Recommendation stages of the process, and begin the Advisory Committee review at Candidate Recommendation. There are also substantive changes to the rules for what constitutes adequate implementation experience. It has been developed mostly in public, in a community group: http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/ (I'm nominally a member, but didn't participate much.) Mozilla has the opportunity to send comments as a W3C member through June 13. Comments can also be made on the public-w3process mailing list. The document will also be under discussion at the Advisory Committee meeting on June 9-10, which I am attending, so if there are comments you think Mozilla should make, it's best that I hear about them prior to that meeting. This is an incremental change to the process. It's making some rather substantive changes to the stages W3C specifications go through, and mostly leaving other areas of the process alone. I'd prefer not to drag other (unrevised) areas of the process document into this process cycle in the hopes that there will be further revisions of the process document to improve other areas of the process (and thus not go another 9 years without a revision to the process), although I concede I haven't talked to others about that idea. If there are things you think Mozilla should raise in its comments, please bring them up in this thread. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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