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Editorial improvements to the Amended Rec process text #93

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Expand Up @@ -1843,8 +1843,9 @@ <h4 id="maturity-levels">6.1.2 Maturity Levels</h4>
<dd>A Working Group may make editorial or other minor corrections to a Recommendation, and produce a new
version which W3C publishes as a revised edition of the Recommendation.</dd>
<dt>An Amended Recommendation</dt>
<dd>Where there is no Working Group chartered to maintain a Recommendation W3C may produce a new
version which W3C publishes as an Amended version of the Recommendation.</dd>
<dd>An <dfn id="rec-amended">Amended Recommendation</dfn> is a Recommendation that is amended to include <a href="#correction-classes">substantive
changes that do not add new features</a>, and is produced by the W3C at a time when the Recommendation does not fit
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I would reverse the order of the sub-clauses, along the line sof

... is produced by W3C w/out WG. An Amended Rec must not include new features.

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seems plausible, draft away, and I'll comment if needed

within the charter of any active Working Group.</dd>
<dt id="RecsObs">Obsolete or Superseded Recommendation</dt>
<dd>An Obsolete Recommendation is a specification that the W3C believes no longer has enough market relevance
to continue recommending it for implementation, but which does not have fundamental problems
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<a href="#last-call">Candidate Recommendation</a>, without passing through earlier maturity levels.</p>

<p>If the publication was requested by a Working Group, the resulting Recommendation is called an
<dfn id="rec-edited">Edited Recommendation</dfn>. Otherwise, the resulting Recommendation is called an
<dfn id="rec-amended">Amended Recommendation</dfn>.</p>
<dfn id="rec-edited">Edited Recommendation</dfn>. If the publication was requested by the W3C in the absence of a Working Group,
the resulting Recommendation is called an <a href="#rec-amended">Amended Recommendation</a>.</p>

<p>When requesting the publication of an Edited Recommendation as described in this section, in addition to meeting the
requirements for the relevant maturity level, a Working Group</p>
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