Automotive Working Group Revised Charter Approved; join the Automotive Working Group (Call for Participation)

Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
Chairs,
Members of the Automotive Working Group,

The Director is pleased to announce the re-charter of the Automotive 
Working Group:
   https://www.w3.org/2014/automotive/charter-2016.html

The revised charter extends the group through 31 December 2017. The 
major changes are one new deliverable (Vehicle Signal Server 
Specification), Milestone timeline and updated coordination with 
internal and external groups.

Please use the following form to join or re-join the group; the form 
will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
   https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/76043/join

The Working Group chairs are Paul Boyes (Invited Expert), Rudolf Streif 
(JLR) and Peter Winzell (Mitsubishi). The Team Contacts are Ted Guild 
and Kazuyuki Ashimura for a total of 0.2 FTE.

More information about the Working Group can be found at its homepage:
   https://www.w3.org/Auto/WG

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Results of the Call for Review
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We called for review on 10 October 2016:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2016OctDec/0008.html

Thanks to the 27 Members who provided input:
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/autowg-2016/results

The following comments were received during the review period:

* Concern about the security and privacy aspects of the work
* Increasing involvement from additional Auto Manufacturers

Regarding the security and privacy concerns, the work does not expose 
parts of the vehicle on the Web and the Group is still exploring the 
security aspects of exposing vehicle signal information to clients. The 
Group has a Privacy and Security Task Force and is liaising with Web 
Application Security Working Group, Web Security Interest Group, Privacy 
Interest Group and Genivi Security Expert Group.

Volkswagen has recently joined the Working Group and we are in 
communication with other Auto Manufacturers.

This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
   http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 5.2.4 of the W3C Process 
Document:
   http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#cfp

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philippe Le Hegaret, Project Management Lead,
Ted Guild and Kazuyuki Ashimura, Automotive Working Group Team Contacts;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

Received on Thursday, 8 December 2016 07:39:36 UTC