XML Coordination Group Charter

The mission of the XML Coordination Group, part of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity, is to provide a forum for coordination between the Working Groups of the XML Activity, and between the XML Activity and other parts of W3C, and between the XML Activity and other organizations.

End date	30 June 2008
Confidentiality	Proceedings are Member-only
Initial Chairs	Michael Sperberg-McQueen
Initial Team Contacts (FTE %: 15)	Liam Quin
Usual Meeting Schedule	Telcons: Weekly Ftf: No regular meetings, occasional ad-hoc as required

Scope

The XML Coordination Group is responsible for:

coordinating workflow between XML Activity Working Groups
coordinating with other Coordination Groups
watching out for dependencies between WGs
recommending the creation and dissolution of WGs within its chartered scope (rare but essential)
setting the master WG/IG/CG meeting schedule
maintaining the public roadmap
notifying the XML Plenary IG of changes they should be aware of
maintaining liaison inside and outside the W3C — in particular, gathering and forwarding requests for additional requirements to the appropriate WG(s)
forwarding requests for process changes originating in the IG towards the rest of W3C
suggesting/proposing items relating to policy and architecture to the XML Plenary IG for its consideration
suggesting/proposing items relating to architecture to the TAG for its consideration
discussing technical questions as needed
managing crises
- turning hard policy/architecture questions over to the IG
- liaising with W3C management when necessary
- dealing with aggrieved Member organizations when necessary
coordination of press and media relations and speaking appearances for the Working Groups in the Activity

Deliverables

The XML Coordination Group itself has no required deliverables; those are produced by Working Groups. But the Coordination Group does maintain overviews and otherwise communicate the results of the Working Groups, and in conjunction with the XML Plenary Interest Group it has responsibility for providing overall technical guidance for the development of XML and related specifications.

Participation

The XML Coordination Group membership consists of

the Coordination Group chair and W3C Team contacts
the Chairs of the XML Activity Working Groups and Interest Groups (or their delegates, if the Chair is not available); at the time of writing, these were:
- Efficient XML Interchange Working Group
- XML Core Working Group
- XSL Working Group
- XML Schema Working Group
- XML Query Working Group
- XML Processing Model Working Group
- XML Schema Interest Group
- XML Plenary Interest Group
Hypertext Coordination Group representative

The Group is also coordinating with the Semantic Web and Web Services Coordination Groups.

Other participants may be added, as decided by the Coordination Group and the prospective participant, based on the need for close liaison with other Working Groups in the XML Coordination Group.

The participants involvement required by this Group include weekly teleconfences, and mailing list.

Participation

To be successful, the Coordination Group is expected to have 6 or more active participants for its duration. Effective participation to the Coordination Group is expected to consume two hours per week for each participant.

Communication

This group primarily conducts its work on the Member-only mailing list w3c-xml-cg@w3.org (archive).

Information about the group (deliverables, participants, teleconferences, etc.) is available from the XML Coordination Group home page.

Patent Disclosures

W3C reminds Coordination Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Coordination Group does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when Coordination Group participants review Recommendation-track specifications from Working Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do apply.

For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.

About this Charter

This charter for the XML Coordination Group has been created according to section 6.3 of the Process Document. Except as specified in this charter, the Working Group follows the Common Procedures for XML Working Groups (substituting "Coordination Group" for "Working Group" as needed). In the event of a conflict between this document, the common procedures, or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.

Please also see the previous charter for this group.

Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead
Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Chair

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