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When I search for "html5" on Google in incognito mode (so it hopefully doesn't rely too much on my search history), http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ is the fifth hit, right after http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html. This is an old Working Draft which has been superseded by subsequent Editor's Drafts, and which bears a prominent notice saying not to use it. To reduce confusion, everything other than the latest Editor's Draft should have <meta name=robots content=noindex> added to its <head>. The old snapshots will still be available at the usual URLs for those who want them, with prominent links at the top of the Editor's Draft, but they should not be turning up in search results.
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.