(Fwd) Start of refinement for a draft Devices and Sensors Working Group charter

Dear members of the Devices and Sensors Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Start of refinement for a draft Devices and Sensors Working 
Group charter
Date:  Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:15:16 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

With this charter review notice, the W3C Team initiates refinement for a 
draft Devices and Sensors Working Group charter:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/das-wg-charter.html

The mission of the Devices and Sensors Working Group (DAS WG) is to 
create secure and privacy-preserving client-side APIs that enable the 
development of web applications that interact with device capabilities.

The draft new charter will move the Geolocation Sensor specification to 
the "Maintenance" section as a Discontinued Draft.
https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/pull/731

We encourage early discussion of this draft charter in the Strategy issue:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/530

Members may use w3c-ac-forum@w3.org (archive [1]) for general 
expressions of interest and support for the charter, but please use the 
public forum above for detailed discussion.

Section 4.2 of the Process Document [2] describes activities during 
charter refinement and the role of the Chartering Facilitator to seek 
consensus among those who provide feedback about the charter.

The W3C Team estimates that this charter refinement will last until 
approximately 2026-02-12.

If you should have any questions or need further information, please 
feel free to contact the Chartering Facilitator, Atsushi Shimono 
<atsushi@w3.org>.

More information about the group can be found on its group page [3], 
including information about group Chairs, Staff Contact, and 
instructions for joining the group.

This announcement follows section 4.1 of the Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-initiation

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/
[2] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-development
[3] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/das/