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W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web, founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee. W3C develops the foundational specifications of the Web — HTML, CSS, XML, SVG, WebAssembly, the Semantic Web stack, accessibility guidelines (WCAG), and dozens of others. Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public collaborate via Working Groups to develop standards through a multi-stage maturity process: Working Draft (WD) → Candidate Recommendation (CR) → Proposed Recommendation (PR) → W3C Recommendation (REC). The W3C PubID schema models every stage of this lifecycle, plus notes, obsolete/superseded recommendations, and proposed edited recommendations of existing standards.

IndustrySyntax W3C identifiers are slug-based with an optional type prefix indicating the document's maturity stage: WD (Working Draft), CR (Candidate Recommendation), CRD (Candidate Recommendation Draft), NOTE (Working Group Note), PR (Proposed Recommendation), PER (Proposed Edited Recommendation), REC (Recommendation), OBSL (Obsolete Recommendation), SPR (Superseded Recommendation). The slug carries the spec shortname and optional date suffix (YYYYMMDD). Website →
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Stages

Components 3

Structured elements that make up a W3C identifier:

Publisher

W3C — omitted when with_publisher=false

e.g.W3C
Type Prefix

Maturity stage abbreviation: WD, CRD, CR, PR, PER, REC, NOTE, OBSL, SPR (or empty for unprefixed forms)

e.g.REC
:type_prefix
Code

Spec shortname + optional date suffix (YYYYMMDD)

e.g.html52-20171214
:code

PubID Algebra 4

Relationships between W3C identifiers:

RelationDescriptionSyntaxExample
Maturity LifecycleStandard progression: WD → CRD → CR → PR → REC<type_prefix>-<code>W3C REC-html52-20171214
NoteInformative Working Group NoteNOTE-<code>W3C NOTE-xml-names
Status ChangeObsoleted (OBSL) or superseded (SPR) former Recommendations<OBSL|SPR>-<code>W3C OBSL-xhtml1-20180327
Without PublisherBare slug form (no 'W3C ' prefix)[<type_prefix>-]<code>REC-html52-20171214