Re: What is W3C trying to accomplish?

On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 21:23 -0400, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> I'd like to see if we could agree on a refinement of our Core mission at
> a high level.
> 
> We all know we're trying to bring the Web to its full potential. That's
> the PR message.
> 
> I believe that our Core mission is:
> [[
> to standardize a universal open platform for data, documents and
> applications on the Web that is suitable for human to machine and
> machine to machine interaction.
> ]]
> 
> The universal aspect here is that our technologies are intended to be
> used at a Web scale. Any use case that cannot find a justification in
> the public Web, ie outside firewalls, shouldn't be classified as Core,
> even though it may still be addressed for other reasons.
> 
> By "on the Web", I do mean having the ability to dereference URIs using
> the HTTP protocol, with whatever device possible (desktop, laptop,
> cellphone, TVs, cameras, car embedded systems, etc.). It doesn't mean
> that other protocols aren't relevant but, again, they're not part of
> Core.
> 
> Would anyone disagree that this is not what W3C ought to achieve? Am I
> leaving out important of Core mission?

Universal is a little too cryptic and we may want to call out the aim to
promote accessibility and internationalization, e.g. by appending the
following words:

 including support for accessibility and internationalization.

-- 
 Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

Received on Thursday, 22 July 2010 12:17:55 UTC