The TAG is a special working group within the W3C, chartered (under the W3C Process Document) with stewardship of the Web architecture.
As outlined in our charter, there are three aspects to this mission:
- to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary;
- to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG;
- to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
The TAG at Mozilla San Francisco, 2 April 2014
Left to right: Alex Russell, Sergey Konstantinov, Peter Linss, Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel Appelquist, Yves Lafon, Yehuda Katz, Domenic Denicola, Jeni Tennison, David Herman
The TAG has 9 members (5 elected, 3 appointed, and 1 chair) plus a staff contact:
- Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) (Chair)
- Daniel Appelquist (Telefónica) (Chair)1
- Domenic Denicola (Lab49)1
- David Herman (Mozilla Foundation)1
- Yehuda Katz (jQuery Foundation)2
- Sergey Konstantinov (Yandex)3
- Yves Lafon (W3C) (staff contact)
- Peter Linss (HP) (Chair)1
- Alex Russell (Google)2
- Jeni Tennison (ODI)2
- 1 Two-year term begins 1 Feb 2014 (see election results).
- 2 Two-year term begins 1 Feb 2013 (see election results).
- 3 Term begins 17 July 2013 and ends 31 January 2015.
The TAG is partly elected by the Advisory Committee and partly appointed by the Director. Each year the nomination period typically starts 1 November the election typically starts 1 December.