4 Schedule

4.1 Duration

The topic of Device Independence is of long term concern, and it may be expected that its charter will be renewed or extended from time to time. The first charter of the group covered the period from February 2001 to February 2002. The second charter covered the period from February 2002 to the end of October 2004.

The third charter is intended to cover the two year period from the beginning of November 2004 to the end of October 2006.

4.2 Milestones

For the work items described above, the key milestones are illustrated in the following table:

Work Item 11/04 12/04 01/05 02/05 03/05 04/05 05/05 06/05 07/05 08/05 09/05 10/05 11/05 12/05 01/06 02/06 03/06 04/06 05/06 06/06 07/06 08/06 09/06 10/06
Delivery Context Overview Note
CC/PP S&V V 1.1 Rqmts 1st WD LC WD REC (*)
CC/PP Processing and Protocol V 1.0 Rqmts 1st WD LC WD REC (*)
Core Presentation Characteristics V 1.0 1st WD LC WD REC (*)
Language Profile for DI V 1.0 1st WD Working Draft LC WD REC (*)
Selection for DI V 1.0 1st WD LC WD REC (*)
Layout for DI V 1.0 Rqmts 1st WD LC WD REC (*)
Aggregation & Decomposition for DI V 1.0 Rqmts 1st WD LC WD REC (*)
Semantic Enrichment Investigation Rqmts 1st WD LC WD REC (*)
Metadata for Content Adaptation V 1.0 Investigation Wkshp Rqmts 1st WD LC WD REC (*)
Dynamic Properties Framework out of DIWG pre-DIWG LC issues management 2nd LC WD REC (*)
Errata Maintenance

(*): REC covers all the process roadmap from CR to REC

Type of Work Color Code
Work on the W3C Recommendation Track
Work Leading to a W3C Note
A Workshop
Ongoing Work
Work on the W3C Recommendation Track potentially outside DIWG
Work within DIWG charter but no ressource/expertise available for now. may be transferred to other groups

It is expected that parallel work items will be addressed by informal subgroups of the DI WG, with significant overlap of participation. Coordination will be maintained by regular meetings involving the whole group.

Other events are as follows:

November 2004
New charter begins
February 2005
Working Group face-to-face meeting with W3C Technical Plenary
June 2005
Working Group face-to-face meeting
October 2005
Working Group face-to-face meeting
February 2006
Working Group face-to-face meeting with W3C Technical Plenary
June 2006
Working Group face-to-face meeting
October 2006
Charter ends