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A variety of W3C groups enable W3C to pursue its mission through the creation of Web standards, guidelines, and supporting materials.
About W3C Groups
- Working Groups
- Working Groups typically produce deliverables (e.g., standards track technical reports, software, test suites, and reviews of the deliverables of other groups).
- Interest Groups
- The primary goal of an Interest Group is to bring together people who wish to evaluate potential Web technologies and policies. An Interest Group is a forum for the exchange of ideas.
- Coordination Groups
- A Coordination Group manages dependencies and facilitates communication with other groups, within or outside of W3C.
- Incubator Groups
- Incubator Groups foster rapid development, on a time scale of a year or less, of new Web-related concepts. Target concepts include innovative ideas for specifications, guidelines, and applications that are not (or not yet) clear candidates for development and more thorough scrutiny under the current W3C Recommendation Track.
In addition to these groups, W3C has chartered two permanent groups:
- Technical Architecture Group (TAG)
- W3C created the TAG to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary. The TAG also helps to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and helps coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. Some TAG Participants are elected by by the W3C Members, others are appointed by the W3C Director.
- Advisory Board (AB)
- The Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. The Advisory Board also serves the Members by tracking issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings, soliciting Member comments on such issues, and proposing actions to resolve these issues. The Advisory Board manages the evolution of the Process Document. AB Participants are elected by the W3C Members.
Closed Activities and Groups
Activities
- Amaya (Amaya Activity statement)
- Device Independence (Activity statement)
- Digital Signature (DSIG) (Activity statement)
- Document Object Model (DOM) (DOM Activity statement)
- Electronic Commerce (Electronic Commerce Activity statement)
- HTTP (HTTP Activity statement)
- HTTP-NG: HTTP Next Generation (Activity statement)
- Jigsaw (Jigsaw Activity statement)
- Metadata (Metadata Activity statement)
- Mobile Access (Mobile Access Activity statement)
- Policy
- TV/Web (TV/Web Activity statement)
- URI (URI Activity statement)
- Web Characterization (Activity Statement)
- XML Encryption (XML Encryption Activity statement)
- XML Key Management (XKMS) (XML Key Management Activity statement)
- XML Protocol (Activity Statement)
- XML Signature (XML Signature Activity statement)
Groups
- Device Description Working Group
- GRDDL Working Group
- HTML Working Group. Note: The HTML Working Group dating from the late 1990s ended in early 2007.
- Internationalization Architecture Working Group
- Internationalization GEO Working Group
- Internationalization TAG Set (ITS) Working Group
- P3P Policy and Outreach Working Group
- P3P Specification Working Group
- Quality Assurance Activity
- RDFCore Working Group
- Semantic Annotations for WSDL Working Group
- Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group
- Semantic Web Education and Outreach (SWEO) Interest Group
- Semantic Web Services Interest Group
- Web API Working Group
- Web Application Formats Working Group
- Web Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group
- Web Services Architecture Working Group
- Web Services Description Working Group
- Web Services Addressing Working Group
- Web Services Choreography Working Group
- XML Binary Characterization Working Group
- XML Protocol Working Group
- XML Security Specifications Maintenance
- XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group
