The TAG
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Front row: Jeni Tennison, Tim Berners-Lee, Yves Lafon; Not shown: Peter Linss
The TAG has 9 members (5 elected, 3 appointed, and 1 chair) plus a staff contact:
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The TAG maintains a public work plan that lists significant ongoing TAG projects. For most, links are provided to "product" pages that set out goals, success criteria, planned delivery dates, etc.
The TAG tracks long running issues and detailed actions using the W3C Tracker System.
The TAG issue list shows issues that the TAG plans to address; by charter, issues are addes to this list by majority vote.
Lower priory work includes:
The TAG charter was added to W3C process July 2001:
W3C has created the TAG to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
Our work from 2001 to 2004 culminated in:
The World Wide Web uses relatively simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures, and media. In an effort to preserve these properties of the information space as the technologies evolve, this architecture document discusses the core design components of the Web. They are identification of resources, representation of resource state, and the protocols that support the interaction between agents and resources in the space. We relate core design components, constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties they support.
Since then, significant events include:
These materials are largely out of date:
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