"The Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. The Advisory Board also serves the Members by tracking issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings, soliciting Member comments on such issues, and proposing actions to resolve these issues. The Advisory Board manages the evolution of the Process Document. As part of a W3C Council, members of the Advisory Board hear and adjudicate on Submission Appeals and Formal Objections. — Role of the Advisory Board, W3C Process Document
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The Advisory Board consists of nine to eleven elected participants and one Chair (who may be one of the elected participants). The team also appoints a Staff Contact.
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The Advisory Board manages the evolution of the W3C Process Document. The Process Document governs W3C's operations and describes the processes W3C follows in pursuit of its mission. It is a public document divided into sections that cover the W3C organization, W3C Activities and groups, how consensus governs W3C work, the W3C Recommendation Track, and the W3C Submission Process. People may send comments on the Process Document to either process-issues@w3.org (Member-only archive) or public-process-comments@w3.org (Public archive). The AB is currently managing Process revisions through the W3C Process Community Group and its Github repository.
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