Re: POI WG charter status

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Rob Manson <roBman@mob-labs.com> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
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> I'm fascinated to see how cut-down the charter now is, especially based
> on the public discussion and apparent consensus that had been forming on
> this list.
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> Personally I find it hard to see how a solely Point of Interest standard
> based on the thinnest definition will be anything but very out dated and
> redundant by Dec 2011 (scheduled date for REC).

If a workable POI standard is so easy, we ought to have one by now!

> Also, since so many people will be in Seoul for ISMAR10, ISWC, Mobile AR
> Summit and the AR Standards Workshop then surely that would be a great
> time to kick off this discussion in more detail.

Good idea. If you can also kick start a community of implementors who
will try to build, test and refine richer, more sophisticated
potential standards for Geo/AR, it should be possible imho for the W3C
group's mission to evolve over the next year or so to track that
changing reality. But in the absence of candidate designs that have
multiple implementations, I'm completely supportive of a modest,
"let's stabilise the basics" charter.

Generally it's better to finalise things in W3C WGs than to invent
them, and we still seem to be in a very inventive phase here...

cheers,

Dan

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> On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 13:12 -0400, Braun, Andrew wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
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>> First off an introduction, I am Andy Braun from Sony Ericsson. I have
>> been tagged to chair this POI working group. In addition to this
>> group, my responsibilities in Sony Ericsson include researching
>> emerging web and application technologies for the office of the CTO.
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>> I hope those of you who are Advisory Committee representatives have
>> already seen that a Points of Interest WG charter [1] has been
>> submitted for review. The charter details three main deliverables: a
>> "Points of Interest" Recommendation, a WG Note detailing AR specific
>> POI properties, and another note that covers how AR and Web standards
>> can converge.  There are other potentially separate deliverables, such
>> as best practices, use cases/requirements, a 'landscape' document,
>> test suite, etc.
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>> The review period ends on the 24th of September, so please be sure
>> that you or your AC rep fill in the survey [2] as soon as possible.
>>  If you haven't joined W3C yet, now is the time.  Once the review
>> ends, there is a two week period where W3C management reviews the
>> results and creates the new WG.  So, the WG should be ready to go the
>> week of 11 October.  While we could have our first teleconference
>> during the week of 11 October, many of the group’s participants will
>> likely be at ISMAR that week. So I recommend we have our call during
>> the week of 18 October.  Before then, I'll send out a poll for
>> selecting the time and date. I'll follow up with an agenda about a
>> week or so before the meeting.
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>> With regards to the first face to face meeting, we did talk about
>> meeting at TPAC in Lyon during November. However, for a number of
>> reasons which I am happy to discuss, this will not be possible. I
>> would like to meet face to face this year. With holidays approaching I
>> believe the best chance would be during the first week or second week
>> of December.  I will provide more details about the site and logistics
>> in a future note.
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>> I look forward to a continued interesting and fruitful discussion.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Andy Braun
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>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/charter/
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/POI-2010/
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