World Wide Web Consortium

  • 400+ Members, hosted by 4 Host insitutions.
  • Director, Tim Berners-Lee
  • ~70 staff acting as technical contacts and support
  • Royalty-free patent policy
  • Voluntary consensus-driven process

Working Groups

Each has:

  • Joint meeting between Web Applications, Web Fonts, Web Application Security and CSS Working Groups in November 2011One or more Chairs
  • One or more Team Contacts
  • A Charter developed with the W3C Members
  • Tools:
    Mailing list(s), teleconference(s), wiki(s), Version Control System(s), etc.

A Working Group MUST follow the W3C Process.

Group charter

  • Web Authentication Working Group Charter
  • Proposed to the Advisory Committee and approved by the W3C Director
  • Contains the scope, nature of the deliverables, dependencies, communication mechanisms, additional decision procedures, etc.
  • Is also a tool for driving the Group, so make it useful and use it well

Groups can propose to add new deliverables at any time

W3C Recommendation Track

The several steps of the W3C Recommendation track