Towards W3C Standardization

Towards W3C Standardization

Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux
W3C

dom@w3.org / @dontcallmeDOM

W3C Standardization aka Recommendation Track

• Happens in Working Group
• Under strong Royalty-Free policy
• Following a well-defined process to enable:
  • Fairness and consensus
  • Architectural consistency with the platform
  • Proper review from a security, privacy, internationalization, accessibility perspectives (as it applies)

When?

• Incubation in Community Group
• transition to WG when
  • Rough agreement on shape & scope of API
  • Some early implementation experience
  • Before it is too late to evolve based on broader input

How?

• Find a W3C Staff to help (👋)
• Draft a charter reflecting Community Group's view
• Build momentum in W3C broader community (cf workshop)
• Iterate based on reviews (from W3C and others)
• Get formal approval

What about the CG then?

Various possible approaches:

• Keep CG to incubate new proposals (e.g. Immersive Web, Web Assembly, Web Audio)
• Pause the CG while the standardization work happens (may relaunch afterwards)
• DYI

Thanks

dom@w3.org / @dontcallmeDOM