FW: Style for Group-internal Drafts (or, "How to avoid confusion with TR page documents")

All XML Core WG document editors please note:
until a WG draft is published, it should be
called an Editor's Draft and the "role" attribute
on the document element should be set to "editors-copy"
to ensure the correct stylesheet is used.

paul

-----Original Message-----
From: chairs-request@w3.org On Behalf Of Ian B. Jacobs
Sent: Thursday, 07 April, 2005 12:32
To: chairs@w3.org
Subject: Style for Group-internal Drafts (or, "How to avoid confusion
with TR page documents")

Chairs,

A new resource titled "Style for Group-internal Drafts" [1] is
now available (and linked from The Art of Consensus [2]). From
the introduction:

   Many Working Groups publish drafts for internal group review 
   between publications on the TR page; please review the
   Working Group "Heartbeat" Requirement for information about 
   expectations for regular publishing on the TR page. 

   In the interest of clarity of the W3C process, we request that 
   Working Groups take care that documents are labeled with their 
   true status. Sometimes labels like "W3C Working Draft" are copied 
   from documents that are truly a product of the W3C Working Draft 
   process to documents that are not, or at least not yet.

   The guidelines below are intended to reduce confusion between 
   group-internal drafts (some of which are Member-only, while 
   others are public) and published documents that have been through 
   additional W3C processes. Documents that follow these guidelines 
   have no formal standing within W3C.

If you have already published such internal drafts (sometimes called
"Editor's Drafts") and they do not follow these guidelines, please
consider revising them. In many cases, this may be as simple as
changing a link to a style sheet and changing "Working Draft" to
"Internal Draft" or "Editor's Draft"; see the guidelines for more
information.

Thank you,

 _ Ian 

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/03/28-editor-style.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/Guide/
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Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
Tel:                     +1 718 260-9447

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