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Process 2025

François Daoust
Director, Project & Process

TPAC 2025
Kobe, Japan & online
10–14 November 2025

Process 2025

Can be found at
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/

Rec-track (before)

Basic W3C Recommendation Track in Process 2025 First Public Working Draft (FPWD) - Exclusion opportunity First Public WD WG Decision + Team Approval Working Draft (WD) WD Publish a new Working Draft WG Decision Advance to Candidate Recommendation WG Decision + Team Approval Candidate Recommendation Snapshot (CRS) - Patent Policy exclusion opportunity Candidate Recommendation Draft (CRD) Publish revised Candidate Recommendation Draft WG Decision Publish revised Candidate Recommendation Draft WG Decision Publish revised Candidate Recommendation Snapshot WG Decision + Team Approval Publish revised Candidate Recommendation Snapshot WG Decision Team Approval Advance to Proposed Recommendation WG Decision + Team Approval Return to Working Draft WG Decision (or Team Decision with AB+TAG Approval) Proposed Recommendation (PR) — AC Review AC Review Advance to Recommendation W3C Decision Return to Candidate Recommendation Snapshot W3C Decision Return to Working Draft W3C Decision Recommendation (Rec)

Rec-track (after)

Basic W3C Recommendation Track before Process 2025 First Public Working Draft (FPWD) - Exclusion opportunity WG Decision + Team Approval Working Draft (WD) Publish a new Working Draft WG Decision Advance to Candidate Recommendation WG Decision + Team Approval Candidate Recommendation Snapshot (CRS) - Patent Policy exclusion opportunity Publish revised Candidate Recommendation Draft WG Decision Publish revised Candidate Recommendation Snapshot WG Decision Team Approval Advance to Recommendation WG Decision + Team Approval + AC Review Return to Working Draft WG Decision (or Team Decision with AB+TAG Approval) Candidate Recommendation Draft (CRD) Publish revised Candidate Recommendation Draft WG Decision Publish revised Candidate Recommendation Snapshot WG Decision + Team Approval Recommendation Return to Candidate Recommendation Snapshot WG Decision (or Team Decision with AB+TAG Approval) Return to Working Draft WG Decision (or Team Decision with AB+TAG Approval) Publish revised Recommendation with editorial changes WG Decision (editorial) Publish revised Recommendation with substantive changes WG Decision + Team Approval + AC Review (substantive)

New charter refinement phase

Main other changes

More changes to come