@@ -195,13 +195,14 @@ <h2>Motivation and Background</h2>
195195 < h2 > Scope</ h2 >
196196
197197 < p >
198- For new Recommendations listed < a href ="#deliverables "> below</ a > , the Working
199- Group will complete them and then will continue to maintain those
200- specifications. For all published Recommendations, the Working Group will
201- maintain those specifications, ensuring that no
202- < a href ="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20231103/#class-4 "> Class 4
203- changes</ a > are introduced except as needed to address any serious security
204- issues that arise or to support the new Recommendations produced by the group.
198+ The working group will maintain all Recommendations that were already
199+ published at the start of the charter period by publishing < a href ="#maintain "> new versions</ a > .
200+ However, no new normative features will be introduced for those specifications, except as needed to
201+ address any serious privacy or security issues that arise, or to support the new Recommendations
202+ produced by the group.
203+ The working group will also publish a number of new Recommendations (see the list
204+ < a href ="#normative "> below</ a > ), and will consider working on
205+ < a href ="#incubation "> incubated</ a > specifications.
205206 </ p >
206207
207208 < section id ="section-out-of-scope ">
@@ -443,14 +444,14 @@ <h3>
443444
444445 </ section >
445446
446- < section >
447+ < section id =" maintain " >
447448 < h3 >
448449 Maintenance Specifications
449450 </ h3 >
450451 < p >
451- The Working Group will maintain the following W3C normative specifications without making any < a
452- href =" https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20231103/#class-4 " > Class 4 changes </ a > except for
453- serious security issues that arise .
452+ No new normative features will be introduced for the following specifications, except as needed to
453+ address any serious privacy or security issues that arise, or to support the new Recommendations
454+ produced by the group .
454455 </ p >
455456
456457 < dl >
@@ -792,14 +793,26 @@ <h3>Timeline</h3>
792793 < h2 > Success Criteria</ h2 >
793794
794795 <!-- Testing and interop -->
795- < p >
796+ <!-- < p>
796797 In order to advance beyond <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#RecsCR"
797798 title="Candidate Recommendation">Candidate Recommendation</a>, each normative specification is
798799 expected to have <a href="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#implementation-experience">at least
799800 two independent interoperable implementations</a> of every feature defined in the specification,
800801 where interoperability can be verified by passing open test suites. A feature is a distinct,
801802 normatively required, concretely implementable piece of functionality, such as a data model property
802803 or algorithm, that provides value by allowing a system to achieve a specific use case.
804+ </p> -->
805+
806+ < p >
807+ In order to advance beyond < a href ="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#RecsCR "
808+ title ="Candidate Recommendation "> Candidate Recommendation</ a > , each normative specification is
809+ expected to have < a href ="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#implementation-experience "> at least
810+ two independent interoperable implementations</ a > of every feature defined in the specification,
811+ where interoperability can be verified by passing open test suites. In order to advance beyond
812+ Candidate Recommendation, each normative specification must have an open test suite of every feature
813+ defined in the specification. A feature is a distinct,
814+ normatively required, concretely implementable piece of functionality, such as a data model property
815+ or algorithm, that provides value by allowing a system to achieve a specific use case.
803816 </ p >
804817
805818 < p >
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