Statements about TAG Nominees for 2016 Election
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This is the list of nominees for the 2016 election to the W3C
Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Each person has been nominated
by at least one W3C
Member according to the TAG
election process.
The W3C Membership elects the TAG. For this election W3C will fill three seats.
Three people were nominated after the nomination period. The number of nominees
is equal to the number of available seats, these nominees are thereby elected
as explained in the W3C Process Document Section
2.5.2.
The following statements were sent about the nominees (in alphabetical
order by nominee family name):
- Travis Leithead (Microsoft)*
- Sangwhan Moon (Odd Concepts)
- Alex Russell (Google)*
An asterisk (*) indicates that the nominee is a current participant.
Travis Leithead (Microsoft)*
It has been a pleasure being in the
Technical Architecture Group over the past two years. We've accomplished
a lot, with Findings on Securing the Web, End-to-end encryption, and
Unsanctioned Tracking. These provided useful guidance on global concerns
of security and privacy on the web. Our most important accomplishment is
more subtle: The TAG guides coordination and consistency across the web
platform through its spec-review process. I am strongly in favor of
continuing this process at the TAG; I believe my web platform expertise,
rooted in browser implementation experience, makes me a greattechnical
candidate to continue this valuable work.
One of the things I'd like to focus on for the next two years is
improving the scalability and reach of the TAG. Each spec review we
provide directly benefits those who asked for it, but we can broaden
this impact. The process of creating and discussing spec feedback puts
the TAG is in a position to extract the cumulative best practices and
salient patterns that emerge. We can do more to return that experience
and expertise to the community, as we have done with great success in
the form of the Security and Privacy Questionnaire. This has helped
raise the bar on spec quality by writing down what we have learned,
andspec developers can apply this guidance without direct involvement of
the TAG.
So, I'd like to champion and contribute to the TAG's scalability by
writing down broader guidance, to document and build consensus around
principles of webarchitecture. In particular, I hope we can focus on
expanding the API Design Principles guidance document.
Thank you for an opportunity to continue working on this important part
of the TAG's mission.
Sangwhan Moon (Odd Concepts)
Akamai nominates Sangwhan Moon to be an
Invite Expert on the TAG. Sangwhan's experience is relevant in many
ways, including spec development andimplementation, W3C working group
participation and chairing, and community involvement.
Sangwhan worked for Opera in their Tokyo office for a number of years,
working on their browser engine and porting it to a variety of devices.
Prior to this (and continuing afterwards), he has been a Web developer
working on a number of products. Recently, he has completed a masters in
Artificial Intelligence,and is applying this to products in his new key
role within an AI company based in Seoul.
He has chaired groups within the W3C and has been an active contributor
to standards such as Web Workers, Web Components, and testing at
W3C.Sangwhan has also held and spoken at a number of developer-focused
events across Korea and Japan.
I believe Sangwhan's forthright manner, deep experience in browser
implementation, and broad background (having grown up in South Korea,
living in the USA and Japan, with fluency in multiple languages) will
help him make valuable contributions to the TAG. In particular, he's not
afraid to speak his mind, and isable to give an educated opinion in a
clear and concise manner.
Alex Russell (Google)*
Google nominates Alex Russell, Standards
Tech-Lead For Chrome, and two-term elected TAG representative. In his
role at Google, Alex is the Technical Lead of the team developing new
capabilities for Progressive Web Apps (the core technologies for which
he helped design). His connection to the increasingly mobile web and the
APIs necessary to enable it spansdesign, implementation, review, and
eventual standardisation.
Alex appreciates that the the next generation of computing will either
be richer for a global, interoperable, app platform or poorer for a
proliferation ofproprietary, silo'd options.
Alex is seeking a third term on the TAG. For the past two terms he has
worked to further the cause of good layering, extensibility, and
integration between various parts of the web platform. This work is
recognizable in Service Workers, the new Web Audio Worklet, and the
Houdinisuite of APIs.
Alex champions a form of hands on, collaborative spec review, seeking to
partner with working groups and feature designers to help resolve issues
and uncover deeper connections between the layers of the platform. New
features like VR, streams, and enhanced media processing are coming and
Alex is working to ensure strong, idiomatic, thoughtful API design
ofthese critical features.
Xueyuan Jia
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