Welcome to the Mixed Reality Service W3C Community Group

W3C Mixed Reality Service Community Group Members:

As chair of the Mixed Reality Service Community Group, it is an honour to
welcome you. Thank you for your participation in a project that works to
define an important and unique new protocol for the ‘locative’ Web.

There are now almost 30 of us in this group - with more to come.

Community Groups have been designed by W3C as the foundation of an open Web
standards process. The first step on that process is to agree to a charter
that sets out what we intend to do, what we intend to deliver, and how we
intend to use the Community Group process to achieve those ends.

A draft charter - cloned from the charter of the WebVR Community Group,
with modifications where appropriate - will serve as the starting point for
our efforts.

Within the next fortnight that charter will be uploaded into our Community
Group GitHub, so we can all pull/change/merge our own thoughts for the
charter.

Charters are designed to be amended by majority vote - so it’s not vital
that we get it perfectly correct on the first pass, only that we state our
objectives and process goals as best we understand them at present.

Once we’ve agreed to a charter, we can settle down to the work of
specifying and drafting a Mixed Reality Service specification. In the
second half of 2018, after we’ve completed a draft MRS specification, we
will ‘graduate’ from Community Group to Working Group status. That’s when
the broader W3C membership will begin to take a keen interest in our work,
as we traverse the final hurdles toward W3C official specification status.

That whole process should conclude sometime in 2019 - just in time for a
range of mixed reality products and services that will be able to make use
of Mixed Reality Service.

The road forward is clear, and our journey begins today.

On a related note, I recently had the honor of keynoting the 26th
International Conference on the World Wide Web, giving conferees a bit of
background to the Mixed Reality System
<https://medium.com/ghvr/the-web-wide-world-3515b61517bb>, concluding with
a request for the Web research community to join with us in this Community
Group, to help us make Mixed Reality Service as good as it can possibly be.
Please welcome them to our group!

Thanks,

Mark Pesce
Chair,
Mixed Reality Service Community Group
mark@markpesce.com