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Difference between the "Proposed Recommendation" and the "Candidate Recommendation"

A recent article on HTML5 says, the Proposed Recommendation date is 2022 and the Candidate Recommendation date is 2012.

I would like to know what is the difference between the "Proposed Recommendation" and the "Candidate Recommendation"?

Solution

  • From the W3C process documentation on http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q74

    A Recommendation progresses through five maturity levels:

    1.Working Draft (WD)
2.Last Call Working Draft
3.Candidate Recommendation (CR)
4.Proposed Recommendation (PR)
5.W3C Recommendation (REC)

    Candidate Recommendation (CR)

    A Candidate Recommendation is a document that W3C believes has been widely reviewed and satisfies the Working Group's technical requirements. W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to gather implementation experience.

    Proposed Recommendation (PR)

    A Proposed Recommendation is a mature technical report that, after wide review for technical soundness and implementability, W3C has sent to the W3C Advisory Committee for final endorsement