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This questionnaire was open from 2013-04-10 to 2013-05-15.
35 answers have been received.
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Please, name the Community Group or Business Group for which you are submitting answers.
Responder | Name of your Community Group or Business Group |
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Coralie Mercier | Community Council |
Mohamed ZERGAOUI | Change Tracking Community Group |
Roger Cutler | Oil, Gas and Chemicals Community Group |
Manu Sporny | Web Payments |
Annette Greiner | High-Performance Computing |
Richard Wallis | Schema Bib Extend |
Renato Iannella | ODRL Community Group |
Wendy Seltzer | Restricted Media CG |
Andrew Cooke | Livestock Data Interchange Standards Community Group |
Russell Potter | Cloud Computing Community Group |
Adam Sobieski | Argumentation Community Group |
Robert Sanderson | Open Annotation Community Group |
Paola Di Maio | Semantic Web Interfaces SWI |
Florian Daniel | Interactive APIs Community Group |
Tony Graham | Print and Page Layout Community Group |
Eric Meyer | CSS Selector Fragments |
David De Roure | Web Observatory Community Group |
Paolo Ciccarese | Open Annotation |
Martin Alvarez | Open Data Spain Community Group |
Anas R. | HTML5 Specifications Community Group |
Michiel de Jong | unhosted |
Alexandre Morgaut | Client and Server JavaScript APIs |
Andrea Perego | Locations and Addresses |
Melvin Carvalho | Read Write Web Community Group |
Rob Manson | Augmented Reality (Augmented Web) |
David Singer | web media text tracks |
Uche Ogbuji | MicroXML Community Group |
Glen Shires | Speech API |
Florent Georges | EXPath |
Chaals Nevile | W3C process |
Mike Taylor | Script Library Community Group |
Jonathan Corson-Rikert | VIVO Open Research Networking Community Group |
Alejandra Garcia Rojas | Geospatial Semantic Web |
Marcos Caceres | Responsive Images Community Group |
Philipp Cimiano | Ontology-Lexica Community Group |
Is your Community Group or Business Group:
Choice | All responders |
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Results | |
Active and ongoing and nearing completion | 9 |
Inactive because it has completed its work | 1 |
Active and ongoing and far from completion | 20 |
Inactive because the original scope is no longer relevant or because the CG never got momentum | 4 |
(1 response didn't contain an answer to this question)
Responder | State of your Community Group or Business Group |
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Coralie Mercier | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Mohamed ZERGAOUI | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Roger Cutler | Inactive because the original scope is no longer relevant or because the CG never got momentum |
Manu Sporny | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Annette Greiner | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Richard Wallis | Active and ongoing and nearing completion |
Renato Iannella | Active and ongoing and nearing completion |
Wendy Seltzer | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Andrew Cooke | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Russell Potter | Inactive because it has completed its work |
Adam Sobieski | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Robert Sanderson | Active and ongoing and nearing completion |
Paola Di Maio | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Florian Daniel | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Tony Graham | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Eric Meyer | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
David De Roure | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Paolo Ciccarese | Active and ongoing and nearing completion |
Martin Alvarez | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Anas R. | Inactive because the original scope is no longer relevant or because the CG never got momentum |
Michiel de Jong | Active and ongoing and nearing completion |
Alexandre Morgaut | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Andrea Perego | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Melvin Carvalho | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Rob Manson | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
David Singer | Active and ongoing and nearing completion |
Uche Ogbuji | Active and ongoing and nearing completion |
Glen Shires | Active and ongoing and nearing completion |
Florent Georges | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Chaals Nevile | |
Mike Taylor | Inactive because the original scope is no longer relevant or because the CG never got momentum |
Jonathan Corson-Rikert | Inactive because the original scope is no longer relevant or because the CG never got momentum |
Alejandra Garcia Rojas | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Marcos Caceres | Active and ongoing and far from completion |
Philipp Cimiano | Active and ongoing and nearing completion |
Is the goal of your Community Group or Business Group:
Choice | All responders |
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Results | |
To provide a specification | 18 |
To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | 10 |
Other (please specify) | 7 |
Responder | Goal of your Community Group or Business Group | You checked "other", please specify |
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Coralie Mercier | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | |
Mohamed ZERGAOUI | To provide a specification | |
Roger Cutler | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | There is a proposal still on the table to try to advance to the W3C a spec involved with a Web Service interface into either SKOS or OWL (unclear at present exactly which - maybe both with limited scope to OWL), but this is on hold because the key players are not currently available. |
Manu Sporny | To provide a specification | |
Annette Greiner | To provide a specification | |
Richard Wallis | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | |
Renato Iannella | To provide a specification | |
Wendy Seltzer | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | |
Andrew Cooke | To provide a specification | |
Russell Potter | To provide a specification | |
Adam Sobieski | To provide a specification | |
Robert Sanderson | To provide a specification | |
Paola Di Maio | Other (please specify) | To provide guidelines and recommendations, that could possible serve as the basis of a specification at a future date |
Florian Daniel | To provide a specification | |
Tony Graham | To provide a specification | |
Eric Meyer | To provide a specification | |
David De Roure | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | |
Paolo Ciccarese | Other (please specify) | We provided a first Specification document already. We are now thinking of supporting more use cases and other aspects such as a communication protocol. |
Martin Alvarez | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | |
Anas R. | To provide a specification | |
Michiel de Jong | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | |
Alexandre Morgaut | Other (please specify) | The goals are: - "To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere" - and to potentially end up with a dedicated W3C Working Group to provide server specific specifications |
Andrea Perego | To provide a specification | |
Melvin Carvalho | Other (please specify) | Mainly discussion but incubation of specs is also in scope |
Rob Manson | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | |
David Singer | To provide a specification | |
Uche Ogbuji | To provide a specification | |
Glen Shires | Other (please specify) | We are in the process of learning from implementations and acceptance within the Web developer community -- both from browser vendors implementing the spec, and from authors of web applications applying the spec on real web sites. The CG facilitates discussion of implementation issues, test suites and errata. |
Florent Georges | To provide a specification | |
Chaals Nevile | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | Not sure if it is inactive because it doesn't have momentum, or inactive because there is no visible work on the specs we are meant to work on. The group provides input on Process (and potentially Patent Policy). And I suspect I will start to poke at the ashes and see if it flares up soon. |
Mike Taylor | Other (please specify) | I believe it was created as a forum for JS lib authors to discuss standards (but I didn't create it myself). As you can see from the mail archives, none of that happened. |
Jonathan Corson-Rikert | Other (please specify) | A discussion forum around tools, ontologies, community interests, not leading toward a specification. |
Alejandra Garcia Rojas | To be a discussion forum for specifications done elsewhere | |
Marcos Caceres | To provide a specification | |
Philipp Cimiano | To provide a specification | In particular, the goal is to produce a vocabulary. |
What are your specification transition plans?
Choice | All responders |
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We have already handed off all or part of a specification to a Working Group. | 1 |
We plan to request that a specification transition to a Working Group within six months. | 3 |
We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. | 9 |
We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). | 11 |
(11 responses didn't contain an answer to this question)
Responder | Status of the spec of your Community Group or Business Group |
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Coralie Mercier | |
Mohamed ZERGAOUI | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Roger Cutler | |
Manu Sporny | We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. |
Annette Greiner | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Richard Wallis | |
Renato Iannella | We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. |
Wendy Seltzer | |
Andrew Cooke | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Russell Potter | We plan to request that a specification transition to a Working Group within six months. |
Adam Sobieski | We plan to request that a specification transition to a Working Group within six months. |
Robert Sanderson | We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. |
Paola Di Maio | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Florian Daniel | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Tony Graham | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Eric Meyer | We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. |
David De Roure | |
Paolo Ciccarese | We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. |
Martin Alvarez | |
Anas R. | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Michiel de Jong | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Alexandre Morgaut | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Andrea Perego | We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. |
Melvin Carvalho | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
Rob Manson | |
David Singer | We plan to request that a specification transition to a Working Group within six months. |
Uche Ogbuji | We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. |
Glen Shires | We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. |
Florent Georges | We have a specification that is a candidate for transition to a Working Group but have no schedule yet for doing so. |
Chaals Nevile | |
Mike Taylor | |
Jonathan Corson-Rikert | |
Alejandra Garcia Rojas | |
Marcos Caceres | We have already handed off all or part of a specification to a Working Group. |
Philipp Cimiano | We do not plan to transition a specification to a Working Group (provide details in the next question). |
summary | by responder | by choice
We do not expect to transition to a Working Group for the following reasons (check all that apply):
Choice | All responders |
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Too early, insufficient number of implementations yet. | 12 |
Too narrow, not a key part of the Open Web Platform. | 2 |
A Community Group or Business Group is good enough, Working Groups have too much bureaucracy. | 3 |
We suspect that key players will not want to make Working Group patent commitments. | 2 |
Too many key players are not Members of W3C and would not want to follow the work into a Working Group. | 3 |
Other (please specify). | 5 |
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Responder | No transition to a Working Group | You checked "other", please specify |
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Coralie Mercier | ||
Mohamed ZERGAOUI |
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Roger Cutler | ||
Manu Sporny | ||
Annette Greiner |
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Richard Wallis |
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The purpose of the group is form consensus from a focussed group around recommendations to another group (public-vocabs) for extensions to their generic specifications. |
Renato Iannella | ||
Wendy Seltzer | ||
Andrew Cooke |
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Russell Potter | ||
Adam Sobieski | ||
Robert Sanderson | ||
Paola Di Maio |
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this is exploratory activity at this stage |
Florian Daniel |
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Tony Graham |
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Eric Meyer |
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David De Roure | ||
Paolo Ciccarese | ||
Martin Alvarez | ||
Anas R. |
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I'm not Members of W3C yet. |
Michiel de Jong |
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we actually use https://groups.google.com/forum#!forum/unhosted as our main forum, https://ietf.org/id/draft-dejong-remotestorage-00.txt for our spec, and github for code, and this is good enough. |
Alexandre Morgaut |
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Andrea Perego | ||
Melvin Carvalho |
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Rob Manson | ||
David Singer | ||
Uche Ogbuji | ||
Glen Shires | ||
Florent Georges | ||
Chaals Nevile | ||
Mike Taylor |
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It seems like this CG is a ghost town. |
Jonathan Corson-Rikert | ||
Alejandra Garcia Rojas | ||
Marcos Caceres |
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Philipp Cimiano |
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Choice | Responders |
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Too early, insufficient number of implementations yet. |
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Too narrow, not a key part of the Open Web Platform. |
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A Community Group or Business Group is good enough, Working Groups have too much bureaucracy. |
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We suspect that key players will not want to make Working Group patent commitments. |
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Too many key players are not Members of W3C and would not want to follow the work into a Working Group. |
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Other (please specify). |
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Please, let us us know of anything you feel is relevant to complete your answers.
Responder | Open comments |
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Coralie Mercier | |
Mohamed ZERGAOUI | |
Roger Cutler | The group is not completely dead but it's not real lively either. Sort of a potential zombie at the moment, perhaps. |
Manu Sporny | The simultaneous running of the "Web Payments (Headlights)" initiative and the "Web Payments Community Group" (running for much longer than the headlights exercise) is confusing people. In the future, when creating headlights groups, please don't name them the same as an already active group. I've spent multiple calls with journalists and developers trying to explain to them what the difference between the Headlights Web Payments exercise and the Web Payments Community group is. It would have been good of W3C to coordinate with the Web Payments CG before launching the Web Payments Headlights exercise. The amount of non-coordination of the Web Payments Headlights initiative with the Web Payments CG is worrying, it gives the impression that there are two completely different initiatives at W3C around payments. |
Annette Greiner | |
Richard Wallis | |
Renato Iannella | To clarify Q6 - We believe that our specs are gaining serious uptake in the community and would be an significant addition to the W3C TR family |
Wendy Seltzer | |
Andrew Cooke | |
Russell Potter | |
Adam Sobieski | |
Robert Sanderson | We are looking for guidance for if, when and how to transition to a Working Group. |
Paola Di Maio | please bear with us |
Florian Daniel | |
Tony Graham | |
Eric Meyer | |
David De Roure | The likely outputs of the group in its first phase will be catalogues and/or guidelines, which will refer to other specifications. This may change later, but for clarity of mission I am setting the group up so that we have an agreed point where we review its purpose - we could in principle then choose to produce a specification. |
Paolo Ciccarese | We are still not sure if it is possible and we would like to transition to a Working Group. |
Martin Alvarez | This group is using and implementing specifications made by other W3C groups. No need of transition to WG. |
Anas R. | |
Michiel de Jong | |
Alexandre Morgaut | |
Andrea Perego | |
Melvin Carvalho | |
Rob Manson | Once the MediaStreams (gUM), Web Audio and WebRTC standards stabilise and become more widely available in browsers there will be a significant increase in our activity as people really start using the Augmented Web in production applications. |
David Singer | under discussion with Philippe, and other chairs |
Uche Ogbuji | The group successfully drafted a spec during a period of heavy activity a few months ago, and there has been a lull in discussion since then as folks work on implementations. We've had the idea of transitioning to XML Core WG come up, and I think the consensus would support this, but we have not made definitive plans to do so. |
Glen Shires | After gathering sufficient feedback (see question 4), our transition strategy is for the specification to become part of future HTML and/or WebApps work. It's a core part of the WebPlatform that needs to be developed within a working group that has significant cross-domain expertise spanning WebApps, HTML, and Speech. |
Florent Georges | |
Chaals Nevile | The questionnaire said I could re-open it, so I did. Sorry, I ended up a bit busy at the end of April. |
Mike Taylor | |
Jonathan Corson-Rikert | Has been an ongoing challenge for people wanting to join to get past all the disclaimers and signoffs stating that one's employer has approved participation. Perhaps this is just not the place for discussions, in which case it makes sense to declare it an area for discussions that are likely to lead to specifications and/or a working group. |
Alejandra Garcia Rojas | |
Marcos Caceres | |
Philipp Cimiano | We discussed with Ivan Hermann who recommended to produce a vocabulary and host it under W3C Vocab. |
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