Discussion

Goal

• To get prospects of Web for next decade and the roles of Japanese industry
• i.e. How should Japanese industry behave to maximize fruits of Web standards, especially for thosei of W3C

Trigger Items

• Backgrounds, achievements
• Merits (and demerits) of participating in W3C/Web standardization
• W3C viewed from industry/other bodies
• Good ways for using W3C/Web standards
• What should W3C (or Web standardization bodies) do in next decade?

Speakers

• Kazuhito Kidachi (Mitsue-Links)
• Makoto Murata (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory / International University of Japan)
• Satoru Takagi (YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory)
• Toshihiko Yamakami (ACCESS)

Moderator

• Shinichi Matsui (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic))