The W3C Advisory Committee has elected the following people to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG): David Baron (Mozilla Foundation) and Lukasz Olejnik (W3C Invited Expert). They join co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee and continuing participants Hadley Beeman (W3C Invited Expert), Travis Leithead (Microsoft), Sangwhan Moon (Odd Concepts), Alex Russell (Google), Daniel Appelquist (Samsung Electronics; co-Chair), Peter Linss (W3C Invited Expert; co-Chair) –both re-appointed by the Director. Yves Lafon continues as staff contact. W3C thanks Andrew Betts (Fastly) whose term ends this month, for his contributions. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. Learn more about the TAG.

The Permissions & Obligations Expression Working Group has just published a Proposed Recommendation for two documents, namely:

• ODRL Information Model 2.2 — The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) is a policy expression language that provides a flexible and interoperable information model, vocabulary, and encoding mechanisms for representing statements about the usage of content and services. The ODRL Information Model describes the underlying concepts, entities, and relationships that form the foundational basis for the semantics of the ODRL policies. Policies are used to represent permitted and prohibited actions over a certain asset, as well as the obligations required to be meet by stakeholders. In addition, policies may be limited by constraints (e.g., temporal or spatial constraints) and duties (e.g. payments) may be imposed on permissions.
• ODRL Vocabulary & Expression 2.2 — The ODRL Vocabulary and Expression describes the terms used in ODRL policies and how to encode them.

Comments are welcome through 4 February 2018.

The W3C Publishing Working Group has published three First Public Working Drafts today.

• The Web Publications defines a collection of information that describes the structure of Web Publications such that user agents can provide user experiences well-suited to reading publications, such as sequential navigation and offline reading. This information set includes the default reading order, a list of resources, and publication-wide metadata.
• The Packaged Web Publications defines a packaging format for combining the resources of a Web Publication [wpub] into a single portable file.
• The Web Annotation Extensions for Web Publications extends the foundational model that has been developed in the Web Annotation Model Recommendation by adding selector types applicable to collective resources and a new model component for describing positions in text and byte streams.

The Working Group welcomes comments via the GitHub repository issues (see the respective documents’ headers for the reference of the repositories).