Here is a summary of the document promotion process as described in IVOA Document Standards recommendation. The role of the Technical Coordination Group in this process is being discussed and is available there as well.

1. Working Group prepares Working Draft (version ≥1.0) and submits to Document
   Coordinator for posting in the IVOA document collection.
2. Working Group reviews the Working Draft. Two reference implementations of any
   associated software are expected, as well as provision of validation tools.
3. The Chair of the Working Group, with consent of the WG, promotes the document to
   a Proposed Recommendation and submits it to the Document Coordinator for
   posting in the IVOA document collection.
4. After a minimum publication period of two weeks, the Chair of the Working Group
   issues a formal Request for Comments (RFC) to the e-mail distribution list
   interop@ivoa.net. The RFC and all comments must be logged on a TWiki page
   whose URL is given in the RFC. A minimum comment period of 4 weeks must be
   allowed. The chairs or vice chairs of other Working Groups and Interest Groups are
   required to examine Proposed Recommendations during the RFC period and to post
   comments in the public record.
5. The Working Group Chair responds to comments on the TWiki page. If comments
   lead to significant changes to the document, the status reverts to Working Draft
   (back to Step 1).
6. If comments are addressed to the satisfaction of the WG Chair and WG members,
   the WG Chair requests a final review, to be completed within 4 weeks, by the
   Technical Coordination Group, and they add their final comments to the RFC record.
   The chair of the Technical Coordination Group, working in consultation with the chair
   of the Working Group responsible for the PR, then makes a final summary
   recommendation and the chair of the Technical Coordination Group submits the PR
   to the Executive Committee for approval.
7. The Executive Committee is polled by the IVOA Chair to ascertain if there is
   consensus for promotion to Recommendation.
8. If yes, the IVOA Chair reports on approval to the TCG and WG Chairs and asks the
   Document Coordinator to update the document status to Recommendation. If no, the
   concerns of the IVOA Executive need to be resolved and a new poll taken, or if
   serious revisions are required, the document would revert to Step 1.
9. The IVOA Executive may propose to the IAU Commission 5 that IVOA
   Recommendations be endorsed as IAU Standards.