W3C Process 2018

Dear AC representative, WG Chair, or member of the public,

The W3C Advisory Board is forwarding a proposed Process 2018 draft [1] to the Advisory Committee for consideration and comment. The plan is that, based on the received comments, a revised draft will be sent to the Advisory Committee for formal Review prior to the November TPAC meeting and that there will be time for questions and comments on the proposed Review document at the TPAC meeting.

[1]https://w3c.github.io/w3process/

The major changes in this document and their rationale, with links to the current process and a diff from it, are provided in a backgrounder [2].
[2]https://www.w3.org/wiki/Process2018

We call special attention to issue #5 - designed to increase agility for errata management moving us closer to a living standard model and issue #52 which updates participation and election rules for the TAG.

Please send comments as soon as possible (to facilitate response preparation) and prior to October 26th (a 4 week comment period).  Specific comments on the text are best filed as Github issues or even pull requests at the Process CG github site<https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues>.

More general discussion and comments should be sent topublic-w3process@w3.org  (Mailing list archive, publicly available) or toprocess-issues@w3.org  (Member-only archive).  You may discuss your comments on any other list, such asw3c-ac-forum@w3.org, as long as you send the comments to one of the W3process lists above and copy that list in the discussion.

Jeff Jaffe, Chair, W3C Advisory Board
Charles McCathie Nevile, Editor, W3C Process Document
David Singer, Chair, W3C Process Document Task Force