Candidate Recommendation

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A Candidate Recommendation is a W3C specification stage indicating that a technology is considered stable and ready for implementation testing before becoming an official Recommendation.

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Candidate Recommendation Snapshot 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf W3C specification maturity level
W3C technical report stage
aimsTo reduce risk of changes after wide implementation
associatedWith W3C Recommendation Track stages: Working Draft, Candidate Recommendation, Proposed Recommendation, Recommendation
definedBy World Wide Web Consortium
documentType W3C Technical Reports
surface form: W3C Technical Report (TR)
ensures multiple independent interoperable implementations exist or are planned
focusesOn stability rather than new features
follows W3C Working Draft
governedBy W3C Process Document
hasAbbreviation CR
hasAudience browser vendors
implementers of the specification
tool and library developers
hasGoal to gather implementation feedback
to validate specification in real-world use
hasOutcome either advancement to Proposed Recommendation or return to earlier stage
hasProcessStep transition request from Working Group to W3C Director
hasPurpose implementation testing
to demonstrate interoperability
to show that a specification is implementable
hasStatusLabel Candidate Recommendation on the W3C TR page
hasSubStage Candidate Recommendation Draft
Candidate Recommendation self-linksurface differs
surface form: Candidate Recommendation Snapshot
implies no major feature additions are expected
indicates specification is feature-complete
specification is ready for implementation
technology is considered stable
mayInclude implementation reports
test suites
mayResultIn changes based on implementation feedback
partOf W3C Recommendation
surface form: W3C Recommendation Track
precedes W3C Proposed Recommendation
W3C Recommendation
relatedTo standardization of web technologies
requires documented implementation experience
exit criteria for advancing to Proposed Recommendation
review by W3C members
statusOf W3C technical specification
subjectTo W3C patent policy
timeBoundBy implementation period defined by the Working Group
typicallyPrecedes wider deployment of the technology
usedBy W3C Working Group
surface form: W3C Working Groups
usedFor W3C specifications such as CSS
W3C specifications such as HTML
web standards

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Candidate Recommendation hasSubStage Candidate Recommendation self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Candidate Recommendation Snapshot
W3C Working Draft mayBeSupersededBy Candidate Recommendation
W3C Recommendation relatedTo Candidate Recommendation
W3C Working Draft relatedTo Candidate Recommendation