View source for AB/Candidate topics for 2022 TPAC AC meeting

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 [https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ 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 [https://web3.foundation/about/ 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 ==
* [[AB/AC_Meetings]]