Process
The official W3C Process is documented here:
The current editor's draft is here:
As usual the W3C Diff service will be happy to make you an on-demand diff
Improvements
W3C process improvements are:
- discussed in the community group http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/
- tracked in Github issues
- discussed in email
- discussed in conference calls; and the minutes of conference calls are also sent to the email reflector
The W3C Issue tracker is no longer active.
Suggestions
If you want to make suggestions, please do so in by raising an issue in Github, or sending an email to the mailing list.
FAQ
Minutes of Process CG meetings
- https://www.w3.org/2023/09/13-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/06/08-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/06/22-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/07/13-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/07/28-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/08/11-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/08/25-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/09/08-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/10/13-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/10/27-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/11/09-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/11/23-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/12/14-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2023/01/11-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2023/02/08-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2023/03/08-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2023/03/22-w3process-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2023/06/28-w3process-minutes.html
See Also
- AB - the W3C Advisory Board is responsible for making recommendations of process changes to the W3C AC and Team.
- W3C Process CG — Community Group for Process discussions
- Other Standards Organization Processes:
- ECMA/TC39: https://tc39.es/process-document/
- IETF: https://www.ietf.org/standards/process/
- WHATWG: https://whatwg.org/working-mode
- Past: there was a process2018 page explaining what was under consideration for adoption in that (2018) revision of the process.