AB/Candidate topics for 2022 TPAC AC meeting

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This is the planning page for the 2022 Fall AC meeting, as part of the ongoing and regular AB/AC Meetings project.

Session Brainstorming

Every session needs:

  • named AB champion (proposed: by 2022-06-23) to proceed, otherwise absence thereof interpreted as lack of sufficient actual interest/time in the session and session should be dropped from AC planning
  • preferred/suggested duration (minutes)

Plenary Membership Sessions

  • Lightning talks (60m) - anyone can sign up for 5-min max talks (hooked off-stage if necessary)
    • TAG ethical design principles
    • +1. Lightning talks are good channel for AC to learn about new technology and standard trend in W3C, such as Web&Network, Web Machine Learning. -Judy Zhu
  • Metaverse panel (30m) [needs good panelists and goal]
    • non-blocking -1. The "metaverse" space is currently more hype than product. Interested person(s) should propose a public breakout session on this on TPAC Breakouts Day instead. —Tantek
    • 0 I'm ambivalent. It would be useful to have a brief talk on "what is immersive web vs Metaverse, how do these connect", explain decision of Metaverse Standards Forum. -Chris
    • +1. There are many discussions and debates about Metaverse, having such a panel provides a good chance for ACs to discuss the technical issues there and what role W3C can play in Metaverse. -Judy Zhu
    • +1. It is nice for W3C to discuss how web technologies will enable Metaverse. We may ask panelists from Metaverse Standard Forums to hear their activities. -User:Tigarash
  • Web3 (15m) [not recommended]
    • What is it? What is it not?
    • "Decentralization" push (but is it really?)
    • Real or hype or actively & presently harmful?
    • What could/should be the role of W3C
    • -1 I think Web3 is hype. -Chris
    • -1 more hype than anything real, and much more harm (scams) than anything impactfully good. -Tantek
      • As Alan Kay said: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” [not to do a talk or panel or slide deck about it]. So if someone has an actual interesting prototype or demo of the "future of the web" they should pitch it as a Lightning Talk. There is no need for a separate "Web3" session of vaporware, nor do we need a Web3-criticism session, as https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ already handles that quite well.
  • Is the web due for a major change? (50min? tentative champion: David Singer)
    • Rather than metaverse (3D) or Web3 I'd prefer that we ask this more general question: fundamental change - Web3 or Web3D or something else? and fold in getting a community consensus on what to do about web3 and web3d as part of the broader question. We do need to decide as a community: if the web3 people need a forum, would we be it, or would we ask them to go elsewhere (though there is already the Web3 Foundation). Similarly, is there a new web experience that's 3D, or will we 'merely' make 3D experiences embeddable in the 2D web? If the former, what on earth does it feel like?
    • +0. Somewhat positive but not strongly so, also feels like it could be an area to encourage lightning talks. -Tantek
    • suggest: 50min split into 20min talk/panel, and 30min discussion/Q&A — likely to have many AC opinions on this
  • AB Panel (90m) - talk about specific topics - Should be facilitated - Should also have open topics - could have preassigned responses to certain AB members
    • AC submit questions (two weeks) in advance; live mic will need time limits
    • +1 Tantek — good that this would be in the Plenary session
  • What does the LE mean to you, the general membership? [yes]

AC-Only Governance-focused Meeting

  • CEO Overview (30m) - or should this be in the plenary?
    • Tantek suggestion: 10-15min "State of the AC" (since this is the AC meeting)
    • +1 -Judy Zhu
  • The New W3C that’ll happen as of Jan 1st, or a humble crow session on why it’s not, (1hr) including:
    • Legal Entity details / progress / obstacles
    • Governance - Speakers: Tzviya and Angel
    • Expected changes from status quo
    • Known Unknowns
    • The Future of Hosts
    • +1 Tantek
  • The Future of the W3C Process (30m) - Fantasai and PLH
    • The state of Director-Free
      • Report on the Council experiments (plural)
      • Other aspects of D-F; are we there yet?
    • Active or Inactive AC? The Threshold problem
      • what is the appropriate denominator in establishing the trhreshold for Charter support and Appeals? We struggle with 5% of all AC reps
    • Anything (else) on the Process that needs surfacing to the AC (ask the chairs)
    • Review of Registries; have any happened? have we learned anything?

See Also

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