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--- a/cover.html Wed Aug 03 04:52:47 2016 +0200
+++ b/cover.html Wed Aug 03 19:42:21 2016 +0200
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
<body>
<div class="head"><a href="https://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" src="https://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" height="48" width="72"></a>
<h1>W3C Editor's Draft Process Document</h1>
- <h2 class="notoc">2 August 2016 Editor's Draft</h2>
+ <h2 class="notoc">3 August 2016 Editor's Draft</h2>
<dl>
<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>
@@ -71,35 +71,25 @@
<p>W3C, including all existing chartered groups, follows the
<a href="https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/">most recent operative Process Document</a> announced to the Membership.</p>
- <p>This document is developed by the Advisory Board's Process Task Force (which anyone may join) working within the
- <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/">Revising W3C Process Community Group</a>. This is the 28 July 2016
- 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 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 further clarifies the requirements on charters that continue work on documents that have already been
- published as a First Public Working Draft.</p>
-
- <p>The 31 July draft removed an informative statement about conferences, and a statement that the Advisory Committee
- <em class="rfc2119">may</em> appeal decisions other than those defined in this Process. It also replaced 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>
+ <p>This document is developed by the Advisory Board's Process Task Force working within the
+ <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/">Revising W3C Process Community Group</a> (which anyone may join).
+ This is the 3 August 2016 Editor's draft for the proposed next version of the W3C Process Document. This document is based on
+ the <a href="https://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/">1 September 2015 Process Document</a>, which is the currently
+ operative W3C Process.</p>
+
+ <p>This draft is proposed by the W3C Advisory Board, 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.</p>
+
+ <p>Further revision is expected to take place in a new version of the Process as required.</p>
+
+ <p>A <a href="#changes">history of changes</a> since the 1 September 2015 Process Document is provided. A log of <a href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/">all changes in diff format</a> is available, as is an <a href="https://clck.ru/A3XKF">"HTML diff-marked" comparison</a> to the 1 September document</a>.</p>
<p>Comment is invited on the draft. Please send comments to
<a href="mailto:public-w3process@w3.org">public-w3process@w3.org</a>
(<a href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/">Mailing list archive</a>, publicly available) or to
process-issues@w3.org (<a href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/process-issues">Member-only archive</a>). A
- <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/">Public Issue Tracker</a> and
- <a href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/">detailed changelogs</a> are available online. </p>
+ <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/">Public Issue Tracker</a> is available online. </p>
<h2 class="notoc" id="pp">Relation of Process Document to Patent Policy</h2>
<p>W3C Members' attention is called to the fact that provisions of the Process Document are binding on Members per the
@@ -2933,7 +2923,7 @@
<p>The notable changes include:</p>
- <h3>Current draft</h3>
+ <h3>Between the current draft and the <a href="https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/AB/raw-file/64c6d6a5b1c0/cover.html">31 July 2016 Draft</a>:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Clearer requirements for charters which continue work that has already had an Exclusion Opportunity
