W3C Recommendation Track

1. Working Draft(s)
2. Last Call Working Draft
3. Candidate Recommentation
4. Proposed Recommendation
5. Recommendation

Any of 1-3 can cycle back to 1 or 2 for technical changes.

(3) CR is a final technical review stage for the entire Community

• duration is proposed by the Working Group based on awareness of work in progress and expected degree of implementation difficulty

(4) PR is a formal review stage in which the W3C Membership checks that the WG has met its chartered objectives and that the result is a needed enhancement to the Web

• duration is established by the Director
• critical to continue to educate the Community during the Proposed Recommendation review

Note: An OWL Proposed Recommendation depends on reaching an RDF Core Proposed Recommendation