Re: Call for Consensus: discontinue joint ownership of Media Capture Task Force, leaving to WebRTC Working Group; respond by 20 Sept 2017

This Call for Consensus to discontinue joint ownership of Media Capture Task  Force, leaving to WebRTC Working Group, has completed with no objection.

Thus the next step is to discontinue joint ownership, leaving ownership to the WebRTC working group.

regards, Frederick 

Frederick Hirsch
Chair, W3C Devices and Sensors WG (DAS)

> On Sep 13, 2017, at 3:25 AM, Frederick Hirsch <w3c@fjhirsch.com> wrote:
> 
> This is a Call for Consensus for the Device and Sensors Working Group to formally discontinue its joint ownership of the Media Capture Task Force, currently shared with the WebRTC Working Group. 
> 
> While the Device and Sensors Working Group charter [1] includes work on specs that have been historically jointly developed with the WebRTC Working Group, in practice most of the work has been driven by WebRTC Working Group participants, and the historical reasons for keeping it as joint work have all but disappeared.
> 
> To facilitate the logistics of the work on the Media Capture Task Force, we are thus suggesting to formally recognize that situation and make the Media Capture Task Force a task force of only the WebRTC Working Group.
> 
> This would mean in particular that the Device and Sensors Working Group would no longer jointly own the following specifications:
> 
> * Media Capture and Stream API
> http://www.w3.org/TR/mediacapture-streams/
> 
> * MediaStream Recording
> http://www.w3.org/TR/mediastream-recording/
> 
> * MediaStream Image Capture
> http://www.w3.org/TR/image-capture/
> 
> * Media Capture Depth Stream Extensions
> http://www.w3.org/TR/mediacapture-depth/
> 
> * Media Capture from DOM Elements
> http://www.w3.org/TR/mediacapture-fromelement/
> 
> * Audio Output Devices API
> http://www.w3.org/TR/audio-output/
> 
> * Screen Capture
> http://www.w3.org/TR/screen-capture/
> 
> (work on https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-worker/ has been abandoned)
> 
> This would also mean removing the said deliverables from our next charter, as proposed in https://github.com/w3c/dap-charter/issues/27
> 
> Positive responses are encouraged, but if there are no objections by 20 Sept 2017, we will proceed with the implementation of the plan proposed in this CfC.
> 
> regards, Frederick 
> 
> Frederick Hirsch
> Chair, W3C Devices and Sensors WG (DAS)
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/2016/03/device-sensors-wg-charter.html#deliverables
> 
>

Received on Thursday, 21 September 2017 15:36:43 UTC