ROADMAP PROGRESS Milestone 4.1 is now 66% complete! I expect that the challenging issues ahead will concern guitar notation and sound effects – we welcome all your feedback on those, including schema proposals. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS Great feedback on Special … Continue reading
Dear members, It was a privilege to work with you all since 2022. I am proud of what we achieved together, incubating specifications like Element Capture and Captured Surface Control, shipping them in Chromium-based browsers, and having specifications progress along … Continue reading
Hey, sorry that we’ve been so quiet. I’m hoping that will change very soon. Next week I’ll be presenting the idea for a new Working Group on publisher transparency to the IPTC, the International Press Telecommunications Council. If you aren’t … Continue reading
Participants Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli (taking notes + host), Kosei Oki, Stein Erik Skotkjerra, Christer Janzon Roundtable Kosei and Tobias went to the WAD event in Iceland. Anne-Thyme has joined the public sector monitoring agency Digitaliseringsstyrelsen in Denmark. Stein Erik mentioned … Continue reading
The Data Interoperating Architecture (DIA) Community Group aims to promote open technical collaboration on secure and trustworthy data interoperability across heterogeneous systems and administrative domains. Following the establishment of the group, participating researchers have continued to investigate architectural and protocol-level … Continue reading
The Child Online Safety Codes of Conduct Community Group has been proposed by Tanya Becheva: The Child Online Safety Codes Community Group develops, in the open, voluntary codes of conduct that turn legal duties to protect children online into specific, … Continue reading
Hosted by the W3C Shenzhen Representative Office as part of the 2026 CCF Standards Technical Conference, this seminar brought together industry experts to discuss emerging technologies and standardization challenges related to generative UI, WebSkill, and web AI. Continue reading
Updates on existing work We also agreed that in order to accelerate the pace of development, we will move towards merging pull requests after a few days provided there has been no strong objection, rather than waiting for the next … Continue reading
MusicXML Karim continues to work on roadmap items for MusicXML 4.1. There has been some good feedback for the special interest groups for microtonality and instrument techniques. Karim is still hoping to get some traction for a special interest group … Continue reading
The Content and Originator Authenticity Community Group has been launched: The mission of this group is to serve as a vendor-neutral hub for a generalized authenticity architecture for web content: technologies to signal and verify the origin and integrity of … Continue reading
