W3C

The Future of HTML
--Meeting Cancelled--

11 May 1996

Paris, France


29/APR/96-CANCELLATION ANNOUNCEMENT

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED --The meeting will be rescheduled at some future date.

Despite W3C hopes of a synergy between this meeting , the SGML-Europe '96 in Munich,  and the WWW5 conference in Paris,  the organizers have feedback from would-be participants and presenters that the timing is not optimal for this event. The meeting will be rescheduled at some future date.

Thank you for your interest.


Organized by the World Wide Web Consortium.

The W3 Consortium will be holding a workshop on the future of HTML on Saturday the 11th of May 1996.
This is the day between the WWW5 conference in Paris and the SGML meeting in Munich.

W3C wishes to enhance communication between the two overlapping communities of SGML and HTML.

Admission will be limited to 100 people. Discussion will occur in break-out groups.
The topic and themes are what in general will be the future of HTML,


Meeting Profile

To solve the problem of what should happen with HTML, this meeting will bring together people and organizations with opposing views , those with vested interests and those who are builders and critics of the present versions.

For some general background information on some of the issues in Web infrastructure, see the W3C pages and WWW Conference Proceedings.

Attendees are encouraged to stimulate discussion by preparing statements as notes or papers to be read by attendees before the meeting. Some likely discussion topics for which position notes are needed:


Preliminary Agenda --Saturday, 11 May 1996

(AGENDA LAST UPDATED AT Apr 24 15:50:32 EDT 1996)

Chair/facilitator: Dave Raggett

8:00 Coffee

8:30 Opening Remarks (Dave Raggett)

9:00 Session 1 : Panel -" The Controversy around HTML"
         Moderator: Marcy Thompson , Passage Systems Inc.
          Panelists:  Eliot Kimber, Passage Systems Inc
                             Panelist 2,
                             Panelist 3
                             Panelist 4
                             Panelist 5

9:45 Coffee

10:15 Session 2: Position papers; (Moderator = TBA)

11:00 Session 3: BRAINSTORMING - (Moderator = TBA)

12:30 lunch

1:30 Breakout session:

3:30 Coffee

4:00 Scribe Reports and Future Directions - Action Items (Moderator = TBA)

5 :30 Adjourn

We invite suggestions or proposals for presentations from attendees.

Please contact Tom Greene (tjg@w3.org)if you would like to present.

The final agenda placed here will replace this preliminary agenda.


The intent of this meeting is to stimulate discussion.

Participants are welcome to provide "position  notes" on these or closely related topics in advance of the workshop.The notes received will be structured by topic and  made publicly available here.

Please submit a position note (or the URL for a full position paper.  ( Please submit before May 1 material no more than 5K bytes.  Space is limited).

Position Notes:


Organizational information

There is no registration fee.
Please Register now
Meeting chair: Dave Raggett
Administrative coordinator: Susan Hardy (workshops@w3.org)

The meeting will take place in Paris at CNIT.

Meeting participants must book and pay their own travel and accommodation. Lunch and coffee will be covered by W3C.

The organizers of this meeting will be drawing resources from

Please send suggestions to improve the agenda or other issues about this meeting to Tom Greene (tjg@w3.org)


tjg