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Modularize the process Open

Agenda+

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1188 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Add support for authorized process experiments Open

Agenda+

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1187 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
AB and TAG: Chairs and Team Contacts as Participants Open

Agenda+

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

w3c/process#1186 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Conditional fast-track amendments for tracking an external authoritative source (e.g., cryptographic algorithms) Open

Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1171 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2026
Ability to start a PAG when external contributors do not grant royality free patent comitments Open

Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1170 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
W3C Process Document does not define method of disclosure for affiliations Open

Type: bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#1148 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 10, 2026
Elections aren't always contested Open

Type: bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1132 · 14 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2026
Say something about the difference between a Note and a Note Draft Open

Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1116 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 6, 2025
Consider adoption of PR #1051 for the main branch Open

Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/process#1108 · Opened Oct 1, 2025
Define new class of WG/IG participants for representing a non-Member company Open

Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/process#1105 · Opened Sep 24, 2025
State the purpose of AC meetings Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

w3c/process#1096 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Consider defining what a technical plenary is and setting requirements related to it Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#1095 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Consider dropping the entire section on AC meetings Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1094 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Reconsider, and perhaps combine, the definitions of "face-to-face meeting" and "distributed meeting" in §3.1.2. Meetings Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1093 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2025
Consider normalizing the advance notice requirements between the AC meeting and all other kinds of meetings Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#1091 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2025
Ambiguity for Registries before reaching W3C Registry Status Open

Type: Question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#1085 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2025
Reconsider requirement for AC meetings to be face-to-face Open

w3c/process#1084 · 12 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 21, 2025
Missing requirement for "adequate implementation experience" plan in revised CR Snapshots Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

w3c/process#1082 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 19, 2025
Ambiguity in new features for registries versus recommentations Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1073 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 24, 2025
Time limits on AC Appeal process Open

Needs AB Feedback

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#1034 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2025
When does a Council publish its report? Open

FO/Council Needs proposed PR

w3c/process#1029 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 18, 2025
6.3.12.2. Rescinding a Candidate Recommendation lacks good context Open

Needs proposed PR

w3c/process#1014 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 28, 2025
Who is in a removal hearing? Is it publicized? Open

Topic: AB/TAG discipline

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

w3c/process#1007 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 26, 2025
Confusing inconsistencies between stages of the REC track for documents and for amendments Open

Needs proposed PR Topic: Simplifications

w3c/process#938 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 25, 2024
Forbid holding multiple leadership positions Open

Needs AB Feedback

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/process#921 · 33 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Oct 1, 2024
Suboptimal wording about "License Grants from Non-Participants" Open

Needs PSIG Feedback

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#903 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 26, 2024
Recall procedures for TAG and AB Open

Needs AB Feedback Needs TAG feedback Topic: AB/TAG discipline Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#882 · 18 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2024
Enhancing the W3C REC Update Process for Greater Efficiency and Engagement Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#866 · 5 comments · Opened May 12, 2024
Creating a more visible banner for old process documents Open

Needs Team Feedback Proposed to transfer Type: Repository operation

w3c/process#855 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 17, 2024
Member Associations to Liaison Relationships Open

Needs AB Feedback

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/process#853 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2024
TAG Appointment Process Shortcomings Open

TAG Appointments

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/process#809 · 25 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2023
"Wide review" is too easy to confuse with "horizontal review" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/process#776 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2023
Council decision side effects Open

FO/Council

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#751 · 23 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 30, 2023
FPWD → CRS transition has onerous change documentation requirements Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/process#727 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2023
Are Statements fit for purpose? Open

Proposed to close

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#712 · 20 comments · Opened Feb 21, 2023
Clarify and simplify the sections regarding publication and process 2021 Open

Topic: Simplifications

w3c/process#700 · 13 comments · 3 reactions · 2 assignees · Opened Jan 23, 2023
Votes transparency Open

Needs proposed PR

w3c/process#698 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 20, 2023
Incumbent bias in elections / impose term limits? Open

Proposed to close

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

w3c/process#697 · 34 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2023
Should we create an Emeritus status for prior AB/TAG/BoD members Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

w3c/process#689 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 13, 2022
Member submissions: can anyone else object, and if so, can they object to acceptance? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#639 · 16 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2022
Favoring weakest objections Open

FO/Council Type: Enhancement

w3c/process#625 · 7 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 9, 2022
Require registries to include "enough" standardized entries Open

Needs proposed PR Type: Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#597 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2022
The 2021 "Revising a Recommendation Process" is painful for WGs Open

refactoring Type: Implementation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#589 · 27 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 22, 2021
Introduction text Open

Type: Editorial improvements

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

w3c/process#555 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2021
Organisation of 3.4 "Chartered Groups: Working Groups and Interest Groups" Open

Needs proposed PR refactoring Type: Editorial improvements

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

w3c/process#554 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2021
[patent policy] Exclusion opportunity when work leaves a Working Group Open

Needs PSIG Feedback

w3c/process#518 · 21 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Apr 19, 2021
Have the normal, default, decision policy for charters in the process Open

w3c/process#425 · 42 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Jul 14, 2020
Community Groups and Business Groups should be incorporated into the Process Open

AC-review

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#409 · 28 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 2, 2020
"Candidate Recommendation" is no longer an accurate term Open

AC-review

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#402 · 66 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 18, 2020
First meeting of a WG allowed too soon Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

w3c/process#251 · 23 comments · Opened Feb 8, 2019

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