Glossary of W3C Jargon
See also W3C Glossary and Dictionary and (historical) Glossary and Kotok in TMRC Dictionary
- AB
- abbr.Advisory Board.
- AC
- abbr.Advisory Committee.
- Activity
- n. One of the formal areas of work of the W3C, as defined in
the Process
Document.
- Advisory Board
- n. A group of 9, elected by the Advisory Committee, with various responsibilities.
- Advisory Committee
- n. The group consisting of the "official representatives" of
each W3C Member organization.
- Bot
- n. A software agent found on IRC channels. e.g. Zakim
- Bridge
- n. A teleconference bridge. A device which connects multiple
telephone lines for the purpose of holding meetings.
- Chair
- n. (1) A person designated by the Director who leads a
Working Group. (2) The leader or moderator of any W3C gathering. (3)
W3C Chair The person designated by the Process Document who
holds some of the executive authority in the W3C. By tradition, the W3C
Chair is mostly concerned with management issues. (This position is
vacant at the present time.)v. To moderate a meeting.
- Chairman
- n. Obsolete term now replaced by "Chair".
- Comm
- n. Communications, in the sense of communication with the
public and Members. Primarily the responsibility of the Comm Team, a group
within the W3C Team.
- COO
- n. "Chief Operating Officer". A new executive position in
W3C, responsible for operations and execution of the W3C Process.
- Date Space
- The part of the W3C Web Site for
which the top level of the hierarchy after www.w3.org is a year
number.
- Director
- n. (1) The person designated by the Member Agreement who
holds most executive authority in the W3C. By tradition, the Director
is mostly concerned with technical issues. (2) Tim Berners-Lee.
- Fellow
- n. A W3C Team member employed by a W3C Member organization,
on loan to W3C. syn: Visiting Engineer.
- FTF
- abbr: Face to Face: A meeting held with most participants
physically in the same room.
- Host
- n. One of the sponsoring organizations of W3C, presently
MIT, ERCIM and Keio. The part of the Team who are not Fellows are
employed by or contracted to the Hosts.
- I18N
- abbr. Internationalization. The form <first
letter><number><last letter> has come into common usage
as a way of abbreviating single long words. Such words begin with the
<first letter>, have <number> of letters in the middle, and
end with the <last letter>. It has found favor with other words
such as "modularization" (m12n), "localization" (l10n), etc.
[Historical note: I18N was coined at Digital Equipment Corporation in
the 1970s or 1980s.]
- IETF
- abbr: Internet Engineering Task Force, the standards group
in charge of Internet protocols. They own HTTP and the lower level
protocols.
- IRC
- n.Internet Relay Chat: A protocol [RFC 1459]
for real-time text communication over the Internet, commonly used by
the W3C for internal communications and to augment meetings.
- KAP
- abbr. Keio Asia/Pacific.
- Kotok
- n. 1) hereditary treasurer; 2) the ALAN KOTOK AWARD FOR FISCAL CONSTRAINT; 3) astronomical unit of refrigeration. From TMRC Dictionary
- Kotok's Calamity
- n. Disaster which "be fell" the ARRC, clearing the way for the Windshield Wiper. From TMRC Dictionary
- Kotok's Folly
- See FOLLY I and FOLLY II. From TMRC Dictionary
- Kotok Points
- standard unit, n. The unit of coke bottle collection. From TMRC Dictionary
- Longfellow
- (1) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet, educator,
and linguist, after whom a highway bridge linking Cambridge and Boston
was named. (2) A now-retired W3C teleconference bridge with 24 line
capacity.
- Member
- n. (1) An organization (or, occasionally, individual) which
has contracted through the Member
Agreement to partake in the activities of the W3C. (2) A person
employed by or otherwise designated by a Member (in sense 1) who
participates in the activities of the W3C.
- Member Submission
- n. A technical document produced by W3C Members which was
submitted to W3C meeting certain criteria, which is then published on
the W3C Web Site in the Submissions area.
Formerly, simply "Submission",
- Mystic
- (1) The river separating Chelsea and Charlestown, MA. (2) The
original name of the Tobin highway bridge. (3) A now-retired W3C
teleconference bridge with 6 line capacity.
- Note
- n. (1) A deprecated term, now split into Working Group Notes, Team
Submissions and Member Submissions. (2)
Formerly: a publication on the W3C Web Site, found in the "Technical Recommendations" area, which does
NOT constitute a technical recommendation, but only work deemed worthy
of publication.
- Office
- n. An outpost of the W3C
staffed and operated by a Member organization, under contract to W3C,
which provides outreach in one or more designated countries.
- Publish
- v.(1) To officially release to the public a document on the
W3C Web Site "Technical Recommendations" area. (2)
To make any informal release of a document on the W3C Web Site.
- REC
- abbr. Recommendation. Generally pronounced like "wreck". A
W3C Recommendation.
- Recommendation
- A technical specification which has been endorsed by the W3C. Similar
to what other standards organizations would call a "Standard".
- s/<something>/<something else>/
- abbr. v. Substitute. This shorthand has its origins in the UNIX text editor "vi". It
means: substitute the most recent past instance of <something>
with <something else>. This usage is commonly found on IRC.
- Scribe
- n. A person designated to record and publish the proceedings
of a meeting. v. To record and publish the proceedings of a
meeting.
- Sophia
- Short for Sophia-Antipolis, France, home site of W3C in Europe.
Sophia-Antipolis is located near Nice. Not to be confused with Sofia,
Bulgaria.
- SysWeb
- n. A group within the W3C Team responsible for technical
operations of W3C computing infrastructure and Web Site. The public
content of the Web Site is managed by the Comm Team.
- TAG
- abbr. Technical Architecture
Group
- Team
- n. The set of people consisting of W3C employees,
contractors and Fellows. syn:staff.
- Team
Submission
- n. The Team MAY request that the Director publish
information at the W3C Web site. At the Director's discretion, these
documents are published as "Team Submissions". These documents are
analogous to Member Submissions (e.g., in
expected scope). However, there is no additional Team comment. Team
Submissions are not part of the Recommendation Track process.
- Technical Architecture Group
- n. A group of 9 people who work on various aspects of Web Architecture
- Technical Report
- n. A document "officially" published by W3C. Specifically
includes documents on the Recommendation track and Notes. In the past,
Submissions were considered Technical Reports.
- Tobin
- (1) Maurice J. Tobin (1901-1953), Boston politician, after whom a highway bridge
between Chelsea and Charlestown (MA) was named. (2) A now-retired W3C
teleconference bridge with 18 line capacity.
- W3C
- n. The World Wide Web Consortium: An unincorporated entity
created by contracts between the Hosts for the purpose of bringing the
Web to its full potential. [Note. This abbreviation does not follow the
formation rules of I18N.]
- Woods Meeting
- n. Generally, a strategic planning meeting, traditionally
held "off site", typically a day or more in length. A special case of
an FTF meeting. [Historical note: Coined at Digital
Equipment Corporation in the 1960s to describe the meetings that
President Ken Olsen held for senior management at his cabin in the
woods in Maine.]
- Working Group Note
- n. A Working Group Note is
published by a chartered Working Group to indicate that work has ended
on a particular topic. A Working Group may publish a Working Group Note
with or without its prior publication as a Working Draft.
- Zakim
- (1) Leonard P. Zakim (1953-1999), Boston civil rights advocate, after
whom a new highway bridge linking Boston and Charlestown was named. (2)
A W3C teleconference bridge with 120 line capacity. 3. An IRC Bot which
assists with meeting management.
Please send suggested entries to Alan Kotok (kotok@w3.org)
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