Helping to clarify the status of documents

Hi Web Adv BG,

As group participants are reviewing and producing more documents in our
github repository, and wanting to refer to them outside the group, I
thought it could be useful to develop conventions for document labeling.

Just as formal Recommendation-track documents in W3C have a "Status of
this document" section near the top, describing who produced them and
their maturity level[1], I suggest that we do the same for drafts in the
Business Group. In many cases, the status will be "Unofficial Draft" --
something an individual or group of individuals has produced for
discussion. An Unofficial Draft doesn't need to reflect consensus, and
should make clear that it doesn't speak for the group or have W3C
endorsement. Individuals and organizations are free to express their
support, and it can be useful to others to see that.

For example:
=Status of this document=
This document is a draft for discussion in the Improving Web Advertising
Business Group. It has no official standing of any kind and does not
represent the support or consensus of any standards organization.


If we want to develop more formal documents, Business Group Drafts or
Reports, or to describe "Business Group support" for a document, then we
would need to gather group consensus on texts.

Thanks,
--Wendy

[1] https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#general-requirements

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Wendy Seltzer -- wseltzer@w3.org +1.617.715.4883 (office)
Strategy Lead and Counsel, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
https://wendy.seltzer.org/        +1.617.863.0613 (mobile)

Received on Wednesday, 3 June 2020 17:10:09 UTC