Call for Consensus: Incorporating Proposed Amendments and Transitioning Geolocation from REC to CR

Dear WebApps WG Members,

This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to do the following 3 things in order:

- Incorporate the Proposed Amendments into the Geolocation specification.
- Publish as a W3C Recommendation.
- Transition from Recommendation back to Candidate Recommendation (CR).

You can view the latest published draft at:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/REC-geolocation-20251029/

Scroll to see the various “purple boxes” (amendments / corrections) that are to be incorporated into the Recommendation. 

## Background

Over the past years, the Working Group used the **Updatable Recommendation** model (Candidate Corrections / Candidate Amendments) to evolve the specification.

While suitable for narrowly scoped corrections, this model has proven operationally heavy and procedurally complex for the type and volume of changes currently under consideration.

## Why transition back to CR?

The Working Group has a number of open issues involving new features, behavioral clarifications, and specification fixes (see: https://github.com/w3c/geolocation/issues).

Continuing this work under the Updatable Recommendation model would require repeated amendment cycles and associated process overhead. Returning to Candidate Recommendation will allow the Working Group to:

- Iterate more efficiently on substantive changes (no purple boxes)
- Incorporate implementation feedback
- Stabilize updates before advancing again to Recommendation
- Continue adding new features

Once the set of changes stabilizes, the Working Group can advance the specification again through the Recommendation track, obtaining any necessary additional IPR commitments at the appropriate stage.

Our intention is to batch substantive changes and advance the specification on a roughly yearly cadence, rather than through repeated incremental amendments.

## Proposal

We will incorporate the proposed amendments into the existing Recommendation of Geolocation and publish as new Recommendation. Then immediately following publication, transition back to Candidate Recommendation.

We are requesting consensus from the Devices and Sensors (DAS) and Web Applications Working Groups to proceed accordingly.

If there are no objections by **18 of March, 2026**, we will move forward with the above Proposal.

If you’d like raise an objection or want to express support, please add a comment in the relevant GitHub issue:
https://github.com/w3c/webappswg/issues/145

Thanks in advance! 

—  
Chairs and Team, Web Applications WG