a diagram showing the Recommendation Track.
Basically three "columns":
Centre
Shows the different stages of a Recommendation
Working Draft: Working Drafts
are published and announced specifically to ask
for review and input from the community. Often
there are issues that a Working Group would
particularly like input on. Usually multiple
Working Drafts of a technical report are
published.
Last Call Working Draft: When a
Working Group believes it has addressed all
comments and technical requirements, it provides
the complete document for community review and
announces the Last Call.
Candidate Recommendation: The
main purpose of Candidate Recommendation is to
ensure that the technical report can be
implemented. W3C encourages developers to use the
technical report in their projects. The technical
report is stable at this stage; however, it may
change based on implementation experience.
Proposed Recommendation: After
there are implementations of each feature of the
technical report, W3C announces it as a Proposed
Recommendation. At this stage, the report is
submitted to the W3C Membership for endorsement.
W3C Recommendation (Web
Standard): Once there is significant
support for the technical report from the W3C
Members, the W3C Director, and the public, it is
published as a Recommendation. W3C encourages
widespread deployment of its Recommendations.
Left
The Public: supporting with technical reviews and pilot implementations)
Right
W3C Members: supporting with technical reviews and pilot implementations, but also
with technical submissions (at early stage) and approval (as Recommendation)
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