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here's w3c's naming of their standard progress

Working draft
Candidate recommendation
Proposed recommendation
W3C recommendation

usually take years to go from one to the next.

jargon ridden bureaucratic shit.

Note also, now we have 2 html standards, from whatwg and from w3c. each declare theirs is the standard.

it's all politics.

and the average hacker fuckheads's like, we need to stick to standards.