The Near Field Communications Working Group was officially closed on 2015-04-10.
Note that there is the Web NFC Community Group that works on a Web-based NFC API specification for Web Browsers.
- On this page:
- Mission | Roadmap | Participate | Meetings | Communications
- Nearby:
- NFC Wiki | SysApps WG | Device APIs WG | WebApps WG | HTML WG
- Administrative:
- My Questionnaires | Participants | Patent Policy Status | Public email list | Member email list | LC Tracker
Mission
As defined in its charter, the mission of the NFC Working Group is to develop a standard API for Web applications to access NFC devices.
Roadmap
The scope of the API work is defined in the initial Working Group Charter.
| Specification | Internal draft | Public Working draft | Stable draft (Last Call) | Implementors feedback (CR) | Standard (Rec) | Test Suite | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active work | |||||||
| NFC API |
maintained on GitHub (old API) |
14 Jan 2014 | Q2 2014 | Q4 2014 | |||
Note that at the Chair's discretion, the work may be split across multiple deliverables.
See also the list of the Near Field Communications published Technical Reports.
Participate
If you are employed by a W3C Member and want to join this group, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative to nominate you to the group as explained in the relevant instructions.
If you are not employed by W3C Member and have specific expertise to bring to this group, the said instructions explain how to get Invited Expert status.
See the list of current participants.
Meetings
Most of our work is done via email, and teleconferences will
only be arranged on as needed basis. Our first such call will be
on 24 June 2013 at 15:00-16:00 CET (9-10am EST). The call will
be hosted on the Zakim teleconference
bridge: +1.617.761.6200
(VoIP:
sip:zakim@voip.w3.org)
code TBD IRC channel
#nfc on irc.w3.org port 6665
(Web IRC
client).
Please note that attendance of NFC WG teleconferences is restricted to registered WG participants and persons invited by the chairs.
On each call please register attendance in IRC using
Present+ firstName_lastName
and please update the information on which caller you are. For example, if you are noted as +1-781-555-aaaa, usezakim, aaaa is yourHandle
if you are ??P5 then usezakim, ??P5 is yourHandle
You can obtain agenda and bridge information with /Topic at any time from within IRC.
Minutes
These are kept on the mailing list.
Communications
The main communication channel for this group is the
publicly archived mailing list <public-sysapps@w3.org>.
Member-confidential messages and logistical discussions can
be addressed to the member-only
archived mailing list <member-nfc@w3.org>
Patent Policy
This group operates under the W3C Patent Policy - see its Patent Policy status for more details.