| - Close to 300 members
- Working group decisions are only advisory; all final W3C
decisions are made by the Director
- To protect against premature disclosure of product plans,
discussions are mostly visible only to members
- XML activity has opened this up significantly through the
publication of Requirements Documents
- Show technical goals that each working group is trying
to accomplish
- Publicly visible (http://www.w3.org/TR/)
- Open to public comment
- Process includes periodic "checkpointing" and revision
in light of comments
- Process is currently experimental -- XML activity only
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