Re: Progress towards a W3C Working Group

Hat tip to all who have labored down this path. Wonderful news!
Cindy Lewis

> On Aug 6, 2015, at 9:43 AM, Alapan <alapan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> That is great news!
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> On 6 August 2015 at 15:38, Renato Iannella <ri@semanticidentity.com <mailto:ri@semanticidentity.com>> wrote:
> Dear all, I am pleased to announce that W3C has formally sent an advance notice [1] to its membership on the  development of the "Open License Expression Working Group Charter” [2].
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> In essence, the OLE WG will take the ODRL Community Group Final Specifications through the W3C standardisation process.
> At the conclusion, all our work will become formally recognised as W3C Standards.
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> The advance notice will allow the current W3C Members to discuss the draft charter and formally review it (so not a 100% guaranteed outcome just yet).
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> If approved, we can then (as a group) finalise the charter and begin the transition work.
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> This is just the first step in a (very) long journey for some of the ODRL community, and the next step for its future!
> 
> Cheers...
> Renato Iannella
> Chair, W3C ODRL Community Group http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/ <http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/>
> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2015Aug/0003.html <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2015Aug/0003.html>
> [2] http://w3c.github.io/ole/charter.html <http://w3c.github.io/ole/charter.html>