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"Candidate Recommendation" is no longer an accurate term

Open palemieux opened this issue 4 years ago • 65 comments

The term Candidate Recommendation accurately and literally describes the state of a technical report that is expected to become a Recommendation.

Process 2020 explicitly contemplates technical reports remaining Candidate Recommendation at perpetuity, but being regularly revised (as a Candidate Recommendation Snapshot or Candidate Recommendation Draft).

The term Candidate Recommendation hardly describes these specifications, which will never become Recommendations.

Suggest either:

  • selecting a different term to identify these technical reports that never become Recommendations; or
  • change the Recommendation criteria such that these technical reports are considered Recommendations.

palemieux avatar May 18 '20 22:05 palemieux