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Agenda of 23 July 2009 TAG teleconference

Nearby: Teleconference details - issues list and Issue Tracker (handling new issues) - www-tag archive - tag archive

1. Convene
   • Chair: Noah, Scribe: Ashok Malhotra (unconfirmed)
   • Roll call -- Regrets: John Kemp, Jonathan Rees, Tim Berners-Lee
   • Agenda Review - this agenda
   • Next Telcon: 6 August 2009 Chair: Noah; Scribe: John Kemp (unconfirmed)
   • Future scribes: John -> Jonathan -> Larry
2. Approval of Minutes from June F2F
   • 23-25 June 2009 (F2F)
3. Administrative items (Brief)
   • TAG Summer Teleconference Schedule (W3C member-only)
   • Reminder that a Call for Exclusions has been sent for patents relating to the First Public Working Draft of our Finding on Usage Patterns For Client-Side URL parameters.
   • Reminder of future F2F meetings:
     • 23-25 Sept 2009 @ MIT (Per resolution of 24 June 2009)
     • 2-6 November 2006 @ W3C Technical Plenary, Santa Clara, CA
     • 8-10 December 2009 @ MIT - contingent on on consultation with John Kemp and T.V. Raman (Per resolution of 25 June 2009). Raman has since confirmed that this plan is OK with him, but warned that he may not attend.

Note: the remainder of this agenda is structured according to the priorities (http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/06/TagPriorities.txt) that were agreed at the June 2009 TAG F2F.

4. HTML
   • Background:
     • Discussion of versioning and HTML at June 2009 TAG F2F (session 1 and session 2)
     • June 2009 F2F discussion of plans to review HTML 5 drafts
     • Architectural Considerations for Language Versioning for the Web (Note from Larry Masinter and Jonathan Rees)
     • Ian Hickson announces availability of initial drafts of HTML 5 authoring specifications. This is, in part, in response to a suggestion made by Noah in October 2008, shortly after the HTML/TAG joint working group meeting at the Mandelieu Technical Plenary.
   • TAG Issues relating to this discussion:
     • ISSUE-20 (errorHandling-20) What should specifications say about error handling? shepherd: Henry Thompson
     • ISSUE-33 (mixedUIXMLNamespace-33) Composability for user interface-oriented XML namespaces (no shepherd)
     • ISSUE-41 (LanguageVersioning-41) What are good practices for designing extensible languages and for handling versioning? shepherd: Larry Masinter
     • ISSUE-54 (TagSoupIntegration-54) Tag soup integration. shepherd: Henry Thompson
   • TAG Actions relating to this discussion:
     • ACTION-283: Update document on version identifiers w.r.t. Cambridge June discussion - Larry Masinter. Due: 2009-07-24
     • ACTION-287: Schedule telcon time for Larry to walk us through a few short sections of HTML 5 document - Noah Mendelsohn. Due: 2009-08-04
     • ACTION-288: Arrange "divying" of HTML 5 into sections such that each part of spec is read by at least one TAG member - Henry Thompson. Due: 2009-07-02
   • Goals:
     • Validate and refine TAG plan of action for work on HTML.
     • Discuss specific technical issues (TBD on the call).
5. Architecture of the Web of Applications
   • Background:
     • Agreement at the June 2009 technical plenary that architectural issues relating to Web Applications will be a TAG priority.
     • Draft Table of Contents for TAG work on Web Applications.
     • June 2009 F2F discussions:
       • W3C work on APIs
       • Web Application State Management
       • Javascript security
       • Mobile Web
       • Web Architecture for Applications (session 1 and session 2)
     • Ashok asks whether TAG should review the Geolocation last call draft.
     • We have published a working draft Usage Patterns For Client-Side URI parameters (discussion of Web Application State at the June 2009 F2F -- we decided at the end of this discussion to delay further work on this draft until more progress is made in framing the broader issues relating to Web Application architecture.)
   • TAG Issues relating to this discussion:
     • ISSUE-60 (webApplicationState-60) Web Application State Management shepherd: T.V. Raman
   • TAG Actions relating to this discussion:
     • ACTION-264: Draft agenda item for upcoming telcon discussion of geolocation and privacy - Ashok Malhotra. Due: 2009-07-11
     • ACTION-273: Carry forward framing issues around Archicture of APIs, with help from JK and LM - Ashok Malhotra. Due: 2009-06-15
     • ACTION-275: Propose concrete steps wrt GeoPriv after consultion with W3C members/staff - Dan Connolly. Due: 2009-06-30
     • ACTION-276: Take GeoPriv discussion with IETF forward in person in July - Larry Masinter. Due: 2009-06-30
     • ACTION-278: Draft changes to 2.7 of Metadata in URIs to cover the "Google Calendar" case - Jonathan Rees. Due: 2009-07-07
     • ACTION-279: Draft a message to webapps chairs relaying TAG concerns around CORS - Henry Thompson. Due: 2009-06-24
     • ACTION-280: (with John K) to enumerate some CSRF scenarios discussed in Jun in Cambridge - Dan Connolly. Due: 2009-06-30
     • ACTION-284: Flesh out the Web Application (http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/06/webAppsTOC.html) outline with as many sentences as he can - Jonathan Rees. Due: 2009-07-01
   • Goals:
     • Validate and refine TAG plan of action for work on Web Application Architecture.
     • Discuss specific technical issues (TBD on the call).
6. Metadata
   • Background:
     • June 2009 F2f discussion of metadata access and formats
     • Framing an Architecture for Metadata on the Web (email from Larry Masinter in relation to ACTION-254; see also response from Ashok)
     • Pre-June F2F Background
       • Pursuant to ACTION-227, Jonathan Rees prepared a survey of issues relating to metadata.
       • See email thread starting with Jonathan's announcement of the survey document.
   • TAG Issues relating to this discussion:
     • ISSUE-36 (siteData-36) Web site metadata improving on robots.txt, w3c/p3p and favicon etc. shepherd: Dan Connolly
     • ISSUE-55 (utf7Encoding-55) Security issues with incorrect metadata (no shepherd)
     • ISSUE-63 (Metadata Architecture for the Web) Metadata Architecture for the Web shepherd: Larry Masinter
   • TAG Actions relating to this discussion:
     • ACTION-254: Send email to www-tag announcing issue-63 - Larry Masinter. PENDING REVIEW
     • ACTION-281: Keep an eye on progress of link header draft, report to TAG, warn us of problems - Ashok Malhotra. Due: 2009-08-01
     • ACTION-282: Draft a finding on metadata architecture - Jonathan Rees. Due: 2009-08-31
   • Goals:
     • Review Larry's proposal for Framing an Architecture for Metadata on the Web.
     • Validate and refine TAG plan of action for work on metadata access and formats.
     • Discuss specific technical issues (TBD on the call).
7. Pending Review Items:
   • Pending review actions in Tracker
8. Overdue Action Items:
   • Overdue actions in Tracker
9. Any other business