How to Incubate (explainer)

[svgeesus]

There is a need for a document that explains to those less familiar with W3C how to incubate a proposal and brng it to the standards track.

Needs to clarify uses of IG, CG, WG; describe impact of patent policy, horizontal review, consensus.

Should link to more detailed materials, but be an understandable, self-contained overview.

[chaals]

Note that this is also relevant to an Advisory Board project for this year, examining what people should but don't know about how to get work underway at W3C.

[svgeesus]

This AB project

[wseltzer]

Are you offering, @svgeesus ?

[svgeesus]

Yes

[plehegar]

Not necessarily related but just in case:

• BlinkOn 11: Evolving the Web Platform API process -- With Early Partnering & Collaborative Design
• Contributing to the Web (and following slides)

[wseltzer]

Dispatch: After a week of virtual IETF in which some of the only meetings scheduled were the "dispatch" meetings at which people presented new-work-proposals and took questions to discuss whether an existing or new group might be a good home for their development, I wonder if that might me a mode for us to consider.

[svgeesus]

Explainer in progress

https://www.w3.org/Guide/incubation.html https://github.com/w3c/Guide/blob/master/incubation.html

It doesn't yet cover much about IP, or about transferring work to a WG.

[svgeesus]

Update, then flag for review and circulate