Welcome to Amsterdam!

Steven Pemberton, CWI/W3C, Amsterdam

Warmest Autumn in 300 years!

So was last year's

Sinterklaas

Santa Claus and Father Xmas are two different people!

Backplane

W3C has defined an extensible syntax

But that is not enough: the various markups must work together as well. CDF has discovered this above all, and initiated this theme.

Kevin Kelly, CDF

Is unfortunately incapacitated

Charlie Wiecha has gamely volunteered to stand in for him.

Thanks Charlie!

Aims for this meeting

Identify areas that should be part of the backplane

Decide on future actions

We have messed with the agenda last week.