Hypertext Coordination Group Charter
The
mission of the Hypertext Coordination Group, part of
the HTML Activity, is to
coordinate the work of W3C Working Groups dealing with user-facing technologies, primarily from the Interaction and Ubiquitous Web Domains.
End date |
31 January 2011 |
Confidentiality |
Proceedings are
Member-only |
Initial Chairs |
Chris Lilley, Deborah Dahl |
Initial Team Contacts
(FTE %: 15) |
Chris Lilley |
Usual Meeting Schedule |
Teleconferences:
Every two weeks
Face-to-face:
Usually no
ftf meetings |
Scope
The purpose of this group is to identify technical areas where different
working groups may overlap, encourage discussion, and to coordinate their work. This includes
liaison with other organizations.
The group is also the forum where logistics and procedure issues of common
interest can be discussed and coordinated. Such issues include:
- Implementation, testing
- Promotion and Dissemination: coordinating press activities and
statements - speaking opportunities - announcements - supplementary
documentation - activity statements
- Planning activities and meetings
- Monitoring dependencies between working groups
- Coordination of related activities and dependencies with
external groups
- Organizing review of specification or requirement documents
When appropriate, the Coordination Group may appoint a task force to
address a technical issue that impacts several groups. Members of such tasks
forces are proposed by the relevant groups and confirmed by the HCG chairs.
Deliverables
The Hypertext Coordination Group may from time to time publish Coordination group Notes on topic where it is helpful to document consensus of some area touching several of the coordinated groups.
Dependencies
W3C Groups
The initial set of coordinated groups is listed here; any changes to this list will be documented on the Hypertext Coordination Group home page.
- Compound Document Formats (CDF) Working Group
- The mission of the Compound Document Formats Working Group is to develop specifications which combine selected existing document formats from the W3C and elsewhere, and which specify the runtime behavior of such combined documents.
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group
- The CSS Working Group is developing CSS2.1, and a modular CSS3.
- Device Independence Working Group
- The mission of this Working Group is to study issues related to
authoring, adaptation and presentation of Web content and applications
that can be delivered effectively through different access
mechanisms.
- HTML Working Group
- This working group maintains the various HTML specifications, and maintains and
develops the XHTML1.x family.
- Internationalization (I18N) Core Working
Group
- The goal of the I18N Core WG is to propose and coordinate any techniques,
conventions, guidelines and activities within W3C that can help to make
and keep the Web international. A large part of the I18N WG work
consists in reviewing specifications developed by other groups.
- Math Working Group
- Following the MathML 2.0 Recommendation, the Math Working Group
continues the task of facilitating the use of mathematical formalism on
the Web, both for scientific documentation and for education.
- Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group
- The W3C Members chartered the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group as part of the
Mobile Web Initiative, to make it possible to provide an appropriate user experience on mobile devices.
- Multimodal Interaction Working Group
- The Multimodal Interaction working group is tasked with the
development of a suite of specifications that together cover all
necessary aspects of multimodal interaction with the Web. This work
builds on top of W3C's existing specifications.
- MWI Device Description Working Group (DDWG)
- The objective of the Mobile Web Initiative is to enable access to the Web from mobile devices. It is envisaged that this will typically require adaptation of Web content, which relies on device knowledge.
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working
Group
- The working group is chartered to produce a specification for an SVG
format, written as a modular XML tagset and usable as an XML namespace,
which can be widely implemented in browsers and authoring tools and
which is suitable for widespread adoption by the content authoring
community as a replacement for many current uses of raster
graphics.
- Synchronized Multimedia (SYMM) Working
Group
- The SYMM Working Group is chartered to continue W3C's work on
synchronized multimedia that started with SMIL 1.0. The language and
the model should be reusable as a component in other XML-based
languages and documents that require timing.
- Timed Text Working Group
- The Timed Text WG (TTWG) is primarily working on an XML Vocabulary
for subtitling, captioning, and other applications where it is necessary to present
primarily textual information with explicit timed presentation.
The Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP) is a format that may be used as a native distribution format. Furthermore, it is explicitly designed to be able to translate (transcode) into a number of existing distribution formats.
- Voice Browser Working Group
- This Working Group have the mission to prepare and review documents
related to Voice Browsers, for instance, relating to dialog management,
extensions to existing Web standards, speech grammar formats and
authoring guidelines. It serves also as a coordination body with
existing industry groups
- Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Group
- The W3C Web Application Formats Working Group is chartered to develop languages for client-side Web Application development.
- Web API Working Group
- The W3C Web API Working Group is chartered to develop standard APIs for client-side Web Application development. This work will include both documenting existing APIs such as XMLHttpRequest and developing new APIs in order to enable richer Web Applications.
- WebCGM Working Group
- The WebCGM Working group develops WebCGM2.0, a graphical format for technical illustration; this work is done in coordination with OASIS.
- Web Security Context Working Group
- This group will liaise with other coordinated groups to
ensure that Security issues are considered.
- XForms Working Group
- The XForms Working Group is chartered to develop W3C specifications
for the next generation of Web forms The key idea is to separate the
user interface and presentation from the data model and logic, allowing
the same form to be used on a wide variety of devices such as voice
browsers, handhelds, desktops and even paper; while also being
backwards compatible with classic HTML forms.
- XHTML2 Working Group
- This working group develops XHTML2, which combines XForms, XML Events,
richer metadata and improved accessibility with elements developed from XHTML1.
XHTML2 is the basis of the Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL).
In addition, the XML Coordination Group
and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Coordination Group maintain liaison with this Coordination Group through
the participation of their chairs.
External Groups
- 3GPP
- The Third Generation Partnership Project
- ATSC
- Advanced Television Systems Committee
- ISO
- The International Organization for Standards.
- OASIS
- The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
- OMA
- The Open Mobile Alliance participates in the Hypertext Coordination Group through a designated
representative. W3C and OMA exchange liaison statements via the Hypertext Coordination Group mailing list.
Participation
Hypertext CG participants are the chairs of the coordinated groups plus the chairs of other W3C groups
that maintain a liaison status with the Hypertext CG. Each Chair or liaison
may nominate an alternate representative. The Co-Chairs of the Coordination Group are Debbie Dahl and Chris Lilley.
The list of participants is
maintained on the group home page.
Communication
This group primarily conducts its work on the
Member-only mailing list w3c-html-cg@w3.org (archive). It
also holds a bi-weekly teleconference.
Public lists may be created to solicit feedback on specific technical issues.
Information about the group (deliverables, participants,
teleconferences, etc.) is
available from the Hypertext Coordination Group home
page.
Decision Policy
As explained in the Process Document (section
3.3), this group will seek to make decisions when there
is consensus. When the Co-chair put a question and observe
dissent, after due consideration of different opinions, the
Co-Chairs should record a decision (possibly after a formal vote)
around any objections, and move on.
This charter is written in accordance with Section
3.4, Votes of the W3C Process Document and includes no
voting procedures beyond what the Process Document
requires.
Patent
Disclosures
W3C reminds Coordination Group participants of their
obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as
set out in Section 6
of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Coordination Group does
not produce Recommendation-track documents, when
Coordination Group participants review Recommendation-track
specifications from Working Groups, the patent disclosure
obligations do apply.
About this Charter
This charter for the Hypertext Coordination Group has been created according to
section
6.3 of the Process
Document. In the event of a
conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter
and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.
Charter update history:
- On 12 February 2010 this charter was extended until 31 January 2011.
Please also see the previous charter for this group.
Chris Lilley, Debbie Dahl
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