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Tweaked Note statements per thread from https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Feb/0051.html
Publish today instead of yesterday.
--- a/tr.html Mon Feb 17 19:10:00 2014 +0100
+++ b/tr.html Tue Feb 18 18:40:55 2014 +0100
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
height="48" width="72"></a> </p>
<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 17 February 2014</h2>
+ Draft 18 February 2014</h2>
<dl>
<dt>Current active version:</dt>
<dd><a href="https://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html">https://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html</a></dd>
@@ -215,16 +215,10 @@
Recommendation, to finalize the review of W3C Members. If W3C member
review agrees that a specification should be a Standard, W3C publishes it
as a Recommendation.</p>
- <p>Groups may also publish documents as W3C Notes. The two common purposes
- for Notes are </p>
- <ol>
- <li>to document information that is not a formal technical specification,
- such as use cases motivating a specification and best practices for its
- use, and</li>
- <li>to clarify the status of work that is abandoned, that there is no
- longer interest in completing it so it should not be assumed that will
- become a standard.</li>
- </ol>
+ <p>Groups may also publish documents as W3C Notes, typically either to
+ document information other than technical specifications, such as use
+ cases motivating a specification and best practices for its use, or to
+ clarify the status of work that is abandoned. </p>
<p>Some W3C Notes are developed through successive Working Drafts, with an
expectation that they will become Notes, while others are simply
published. There are few formal requirements to publish a document as a
@@ -351,9 +345,8 @@
<dt id="WGNote">Working Group Note, Interest Group Note (NOTE) </dt>
<dd>A Working Group Note or Interest Group Note is published by a
chartered Working Group or Interest Group to provide a stable reference
- for a useful document that is not intended to be a standard with
- conformance requirements, or to document work that was abandoned without
- producing a Recommendation.</dd>
+ for a useful document that is not intended to be a formal standard, or
+ to document work that was abandoned without producing a Recommendation.</dd>
<dt id="RescindedRec">Rescinded Recommendation</dt>
<dd>A Rescinded Recommendation is an entire Recommendation that W3C no
longer endorses. See also clause 10 of the licensing requirements for