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- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:56:40 -0700
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This is a Call For Consensus (CFC) on the proposal to mark previous versions of HTML and XHTML obsolete. The definition of an obsolete specification is found in [section 6.1.2 of the W3C Process](https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#Reports) >"An Obsolete Recommendation is a specification that W3C does not believe has sufficient market relevance to continue recommending that the community implement it, but does not consider that there are fundamental problems that require the Recommendation be Rescinded. It is possible for an Obsolete Recommendation to receive sufficient market uptake that W3C decides to restore it to Recommendation status. An Obsolete Recommendation has the same status as a W3C Recommendation with regards to W3C Royalty-Free IPR licenses granted under the Patent Policy."> The reason for this proposal is that these specifications are no longer recommended for implementation or use on the web platform. As older versions are superceded by new versions (as HTML5.0 has been superceeded by HTML5.1), the W3C should communicate this as clearly as possible to the web community. The rationale for including both HTML and XHTML specifications in this CFC is that the WebPlat WG maintains specifications that include XHTML as well as HTML. The specifications covered by this proposal are: * [HTML 3.2](http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32-19970114) * [HTML 4.0](http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40-971218) * [HTML 4.0 Revised](http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424) * [HTML 4.01](http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224) * [HTML 5.0](http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028) * [XHTML Basic](http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml-basic-20001219) * [XHTML 1.0](http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126) * [Modularization of XHTML](http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410/) * [Module Based XHTML](http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xhtml11-20010531) * [XHTML 1.0 2nd edition](http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801) * [XHTML Print](http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xhtml-print-20060920/) * [XHTML Basic 1.1](http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xhtml-basic-20080729) * [XHTML Modularization 1.1](http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xhtml-modularization-20081008) * [XHTML Basic 1.1 2nd edition](http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xhtml-basic-20101123) * [XHTML Modularization 1.1 2nd edition](http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xhtml-modularization-20100729) * [XHTML Print 2nd edition](http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xhtml-print-20101123/) * [XHTML Module Based 1.1 2nd edition](http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xhtml11-20101123) Please respond to this CFC by end of day on Tuesday 18th July 2017. If you choose not to respond to this CFC it will be taken as implicit support for the proposal. Your opinion is important though, so please take time to actively respond. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/WebPlatformWG/issues/86
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