Summary of TAG activity from 30 Oct 2004 to 22 Feb 2005

Hello,

This is a summary of the TAG's activity from 30 Oct 2004 (end date of
the previous summary [1]) to 22 Feb 2005.

The TAG held eleven teleconferences and one face-to-face meeting
during this period. Summaries of those meetings are available in TAG
public email archive[2].

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tag-announce/2004Nov/0001.html 
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/ 

1) Architecture Document

   The Architecture Document was published as a proposed
   recommendation[3] and subequently as a W3C Recommendation[4]
   after AC review [5].

[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-webarch-20041105/
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/
[5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2004OctDec/0047.html

2) Issues

  During the reporting period the TAG accepted one new issue,
  endPointRefs-47[6] concerning the binding of WS Addressing Endpoint
  References to underlying protocols onto its general issues list.

  During the reporting periodthe TAG closed one issue.
  xmlProfiles-29[7] was closed by withdrawing the TAGs request to the
  XML Core WG.

  Details about discussions and related actions are available in the
  meeting minutes linked from the TAG's home page. The TAG's issues
  list is available at: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ilist

[6] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#endPointRefs-47
[7] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#xmlProfiles-29

3) Findings

  No new findings were approved during this period. 

  A revised draft of the "Extending and Versioning XML Languages" was
  published [8].

[8] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2004Nov/0071.html

  More information about TAG findings is available at:
  http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/findings

4) Communication

  The TAG held a joint distributed session with members of the XML
  Schema working group to discuss joint work on "Extensibility and
  Versioning" related to TAG issue XMLVersioning-41 [9].

  The TAG reported to the December AC Meeting [10]

[9] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#XMLVersioning-41
[10] http://www.w3.org/2004/12/02-AC-minutes.html#TAG (member visible)

5) Upcoming

  The TAG next meets face-to-face 28 Feb 2005 during the W3C Technical
  Plenary Week in Boston, MA. The TAG has arranged a number of liaison
  meetings with other W3C WGs[11].

  TAG participants will be participating in Technical Plenary panel
  sessions [12]

[11] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2005/01/TechnicalPlenaryLiaisons.html
[12] http://www.w3.org/2005/03/02-TechPlenAgenda.html

6) Appointments and Elections

  Tim Berners-Lee appointed Vincent Quint of Inria, to the TAG to
  serve as co-chair.

  TAG elections concluded 25th January [13] with the election of David
  Orchard (BEA), Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems), Ed Rice
  (Hewlett-Packard Co) and Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh).

  The terms of retiring TAG members Paul Cotton (Microsoft), Chris
  Lilley (W3) and Stuart Williams (Hewlett-Packard Co) formally ended
  on 31st January, however they have continuted to participate in TAG
  meetings through an informal transition period that ends 4th March
  2005, the end of the Techical Plenary week.

[13] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2005JanMar/0015.html

Norman Walsh (with thanks to Stuart Williams),
for TAG co-chairs Vincent Quint and Tim Berners-Lee.