Socialwg/wm-rec

   Dear Advisory Committee Representatives,
   Chairs,
   
   It is my pleasure to announce that Webmention is now a W3C 
   Recommendation:
   
       https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-webmention-20170112/
   
   Webmention provides a mechanism for a website to notify other websites
   that it has content which links to them and when the source content
   changes or is deleted.   This mechanism is a core building block for a
   decentralized (social) Web, because it allows sites to automatically
   learn about connected content, without any prior setup or agreement.
   For users, an immediate benefit is cross-site comments.   Before being
   brought to W3C for standardization, Webmention already had twenty-seven
   independent implementations in the IndieWebCamp <https://indieweb.org/>
   community. Since reaching PR, it has received formal implementation reports
   from 8 independent implementations, including from outside of the
   Indiewebcamp community.
   
   All Members who responded to the Call for Review [1] of the Proposed
   Recommendation showed support, with some suggested editorial changes which
   were carried out.
   
   Please join us in congratulating the W3C Social Web Working Group [2] 
   on this achievement.
   
   This announcement follows section 7.1.2 [3] of the W3C Process Document
   
   Thank you,

   [1] https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/webmention/
   [2] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/
   [3] https://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#ACReviewAfter