W3C Recommendation Comment

From Revising W3C Process Community Group

Comment

6.6 W3C Recommendation
  "The decision to advance a document to Recommendation is a W3C
  Decision." This sentence is the only one of its kind in the document.
  Section 7 defines W3C decision:
    "A W3C decision is one where the Director (or the Director's
    delegate) has exercised the role of assessing consensus after an
    Advisory Committee review."
  And if you follow the link to AC review you see a list of things:
   * new and modified Working and Interest Groups,
   * Proposed Recommendations, Proposed Edited Recommendations, Proposal to Rescind a Recommendation, and
   * Proposed changes to the W3C process.
  None of the other corresponding sections of the document have an
  outright statement that "this is a W3C decision" other than 6.6.
  Proposed: Delete "The decision to advance a document to
  Recommendation is a W3C Decision." as redundant.
  Discussion
  CMN: I'm more inclined to try to formalise the notion of decisions 
  in the Process. One of my frustrations is that while it talks about decisions, 
  it is rare that it describes what constitutes a decision being made - in 
  particular, there is nothing that says what is a valid working group decision, 
  although those are required for various reasons in different parts of the process.
  In the meantime, I'm opposed to your proposed change and propose to make no change.
  IJ: I support the idea of formalizing the notion of decisions. Back in 2007 
  I took an initial stab at this:
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  Meanwhile, if you were looking for ways to remove cruft from the document and 
  shorten it, this seemed like low-hanging fruit.
  Deferred to a future revision of the description of "decisions"