FW: Protocols and Formats Working Group now closed

TTWG, you may be interested in this (especially as we have a horizontal
review requirement for future recommendations):

On 18/03/2016 23:19, "Coralie Mercier" <coralie@w3.org> wrote:

>
>Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
>Chairs,
>public-pfwg@w3.org subscribers,
>
>The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) [1], whose charter we had
>previously extended until the 3rd of December [2] to overlap the start-up
>periods of the APA WG and ARIA WG, ceased publications as scheduled. Some
>use of lists and tools continued into January but has now ceased. The
>group is now closed.
>
>The group's latest charter [3] included work on four technical
>specifications: WAI-ARIA 1.0 [4], WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide
>[5], Role Attribute [6], and HTML 5 Accessibility API Mappings [7]
>(document names and URIs updated from charter versions). The first three
>specifications have been published as W3C Recommendations.
>
>To continue work on the fourth specification and to begin work on WAI-ARIA
>1.1 with several related modules, a new charter was proposed, with the
>group renamed as "Accessible Platform Architectures" [8]. Feedback from AC
>review of that charter included several strong requests to split the group
>between its horizontal review and technology development functions.
>Ultimately two new Working Groups were chartered to continue the scope:
>Accessible Platform Architectures [9] for specification review, and
>Accessible Rich Internet Applications [10] for specification development.
>
>The Protocols and Formats Working Group was extended several times to
>allow work to continue during the process of chartering the new groups,
>and to allow time to transfer participants, tools, and deliverables to the
>new groups. That transfer is now complete. We would like to thank the
>Working Group Chair, Janina Sajka, who continues as chair of the
>Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group, and all the participants
>in the group for their efforts.
>
>This announcement follows section 5.2.8 of the Process Document [10].
>
>For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
>Judy Brewer, WAI Domain Leader,
>Michael Cooper, Protocols and Formats Working Group Team Contact;
>Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications
>
>[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/

>[2]
>https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2015OctDec/0019.html

>[3] https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/charter201006

>[4] https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/

>[5] https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/

>[6] https://www.w3.org/TR/role-attribute/

>[7] https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aam-1.0/

>[8] https://www.w3.org/2012/10/draft-pfwg-charter

>[9] https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/

>[10] https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/

>[11] https://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#GeneralTermination

>
>--
>Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  http://www.w3.org

>mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

>



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Received on Monday, 21 March 2016 10:38:04 UTC