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In discussing this issue, the <a href="/wg_a52b03be97db00a8b00fb8f33a293d141/en/de/www.w3.org/2002/ab/"="">W3C Advisory Board</a> 
has maintained that, while
Working Groups should be able to move documents as quickly as possible
through the <a href="/wg_a52b03be97db00a8b00fb8f33a293d141/en/de/www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/#Recs"="">Recommendation track</a>, speed was less important than technical
quality, interoperability, and consensus and buy-in from the W3C Membership
and Web community. Rather than create a special "expedited Recommendation
track" which might undermine some of the quality assurance ensured by the
current process, this document suggests steps for smoothing a
document's way through the existing Recommendation track.
Build consensus early around the scope of work. Some mechanisms
available to Members include:
A newly formed Working Group that starts with an already-deployed
specification may advance to Candidate Recommendation as quickly as
they wish, provided there is agreement in the Working Group to do
so. Plan for an early face-to-face meeting for this type of
decision.
Even when a specification is well-deployed, expect feedback and requests
for changes based on broader review than the initial authors. It may take
some time to build awareness in other W3C groups, related standards
organizations, and in the Web community generally. Some mechanisms that will
help secure wide review include:
Members should expect that if they want to get work done faster within the
W3C Process, they may need to expend extra resources to do so (e.g., on
communications). Some suggested mechanisms:
<strong="">Note</strong>: W3C Fellows always contribute a lot, but may raise
concerns among other Members that one Member's interests are overrepresented
in a particular area.