As every year, @w3c is evaluating how the formal process it uses to standardize specifications should evolve to match the needs from the #Web Platform and its communities.

Nov 28, 2019 · 2:26 PM UTC

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The W3C Process is maintained by the @W3CAB, with most of the work happening in public in the W3C Process Community Group
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The process is maintained by our Advisory Board @w3CAB (yes, they too are on Twitter!) with input from the public via the W3C Process Community Group w3.org/community/w3process/ Congrats to @chaals for shepherding that latest set of updates!
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A major focus on the next revision of the process is to enable more continuous evolution of #W3CStandards. Because the stage-based approach to standardization is sometimes a hindrance to groups that need fast iteration for their work, ...
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... the @W3CAB has been building a full proposal on how to adopt the W3C Recommendation track to allow this kind of iteration for our standards: w3.org/wiki/Process2020
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Hear directly from @fantasai and @plhw3org on the motivations and directions for this process evolution in a presentation they gave at our #w3cTPAC meetings last September: w3.org/2019/09/TPAC/tp-conti… (video+transcript+slides).

Continuous Specification Development Process for W3C - fantasai, Philippe Le Hégaret #Fukuoka, 18...

Philippe Le Hégaret and Fantasai presents a proposal to revamp the W3C Recommendation track to enable continuous specification development for W3C Working Groups.

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"W3c is evaluating how the formal process it uses to standardize specifications should evolve" The W3C doesn't have to do a thing. The WHATWG tells the W3C what it wants, the W3C rubber stamps approval, implementation proceeds. What's the problem?