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[DRAFT] Web and TV Interest Group Charter

The mission of the Web and TV Interest Group , part of the W3C Ubiquitous Web Domain , is to provide a forum for clarification about the relationship between Web and TV, especially the architectual relationship between services on the Web and TV services; to review deliverables under development by other W3C groups; to identify requirements and potential solutions to ensure that the Web can function effectively with TV services on TV devices and TV-like devices, and vice versa. i.e. TV can function effectively on various devices with services on the Web as well.; and to propose work items either in the form of new W3C Working Groups, or specific work that should be done in existing Working Groups.

Join the Web and TV Interest Group mailing list .

End date 30 November 2012
Confidentiality Proceedings are Public .
Initial Chairs
  • FUNAHASHI Yosuke - Tomo-Digi
  • KAWAMORI Masahito - NTT
  • Giuseppe PASCALE - Opera Software
  • HyeonJae Lee - LG Electronics
Initial Team Contacts
(FTE %: 10) 		Kazuyuki Ashimura
Usual Meeting Schedule Teleconferences: Teleconferences may be held as required
Face-to-face: As required up to 3 per year

Scope

The Web and TV Interest Group's scope of work includes: Minimum clarification about the conceptual relationship between Web covers audio-visual content and TV, especially the architectual relationship between the related services on Web delivered by via satellite and terrestrial broadcasting, or via cable services, as well as delivery through IP.

The tasks the TV services; Interest Group will undertake include:

Note that the technical development of standards (or making choices about which of several standards best meet a use case) is not in the scope of the Interest Group. Instead the Interest Group will recommend work items for other Groups.

Success Criteria

Deliverables

The primary deliverables of the Web and TV Interest Group are recommendations for work items to ensure that the Web and TV can function complementary and cooperatively on TV devices and TV-like devices.

In addition the group will review and comment on draft documents from W3C groups; and raise issues that relate to the core mission of the Interest Group.

The first deliverable for the group is to classify the topics suggested during the "Web on TV" workshop (Tokyo, September 20010) into the following four categories:

  1. Topics that should be done by a new Working Group.
  2. New requirements for existing Working Groups. The IG should make sure that the right requirements get passed to the right Working Groups.
  3. Work that is satisfactorily done outside W3C and has industry-wide consensus. We should document this for the record but should not try to re-create existing standards within W3C.
  4. Work items that it is unclear where they should be done.

If a further workshop on the topic is held (or a face-to-face meeting of the Interest Group), then we should do the same categorization for items identified there as high priority.

The group may also develop a W3C Note describing the conceptual relationship between Web and TV, especially the architectual relationship between the services on Web and the TV services.

Timelines

The Interest Group should deliver a preliminary set of work recommendations by 30 January 2010 based on the results of the W3C Web on TV workshop held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2010, and input provided to the Interest Group. These can take the form of requirements presented to existing W3C Working Groups, and / or proposed new work requiring a new Working Group to be chartered.

Timelines for review of work from other groups will depend on the deliverables from those groups being available. Participants in this group should expect between two and four weeks to review relevant deliverables.

Dependencies and Liaisons

W3C Groups

The Web and TV IG provides a forum for review and discussion of draft deliverables from many W3C groups. Among the most important groups are likely to be:

External Groups

There are a number of external groups important to the TV industry, or working in related areas regarding the Web and TV. The Interest Group should determine whom to communicate with and maintain communication with them. For example, the following groups are likely to be important:

(This is not intended as an exhaustive list, but illustrative of groups working on related technologies)

Participation

Participation in the Web and TV Interest Group is open to the public. Participants who are not W3C members are required to make a commitment to the W3C Patent Policy (as is done by "invited experts" in e.g. the HTML WG). Participants are strongly encouraged to take advantage of frequent opportunities to review and comment on deliverables from other groups.

A Chair may call teleconference or face to meetings consistent with the W3C Process requirements for meetings .

Communication

This group conducts its technical work on the public mailing list public-web-and-tv@w3.org ( archive ). Specific documents under review may have a designated mailing list for comments, which is included in the document itself and in the review notice.

Information about the group (documents under review, face-to-face meetings, etc.) is available from the Web and TV Interest Group home page .

Decision Policy

Consistent with its mission, this group is not a decision-making body, but rather provides a forum for discussion and advice on different topics relating to the Web and TV.

Where there is consensus among the representatives of W3C members in the group, it will be forwarded as a consensus position. Where the group does not reach agreement, the different positions (whether held by W3C members or other members of the group) will be forwarded together, with any decisions to be made by a relevant working group according to its processes.

All technical resolutions made by a meeting of the group are provisional until two weeks after being published to the mailing list. An objection made on the mailing list within two weeks of publishing a decision has the same standing as if it were made at the meeting.

Patent Disclosures

The Web and TV Interest Group provides an opportunity to share perspectives on the topic addressed by this charter. W3C reminds Interest Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Interest Group does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when Interest Group participants review or propose work for 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 has been created according to section 6.2 of the Process Document . In the event of a conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.

Charter authors: Charles McCathieNevile, Kazuyuki Ashimura, Yosuke Funahashi

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