- From: Don Brutzman <brutzman@nps.edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 09:33:44 -0800
- To: "public-exi@w3.org" <public-exi@w3.org>
- CC: Takuki Kamiya <tkamiya@us.fujitsu.com>, "Peintner, Daniel (ext)" <daniel.peintner.ext@siemens.com>, Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>, Liam Quinn <liam@w3.org>
Looking ahead for EXI: there is still a lot of opportunity, and a lot to do!
Here are potential goals for an EXI Working Group restart/recharter. All feedback is welcome.
Background.
- The EXI working group charter timed out in 2017. Restart or recharter is necessary for formal W3C approval of new work.
- Efficient XML Interchange Working Group Charter
https://www.w3.org/XML/2015/05/exi-charter.html
- W3C Process Document, 5 Working Groups and Interest Groups
http://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#GAGeneral
Motivations.
- A large amount of important work has been accomplished by EXI working group, with a few tasks pending completion.
- Further adapting EXI offers significant potential value to a wide range of W3C activities and capabilities.
- W3C Design Principles: Web on Everything, Web of Data and Services, Web of Trust
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission
Restart or Recharter.
- Restart is possible based on success to date and need for continuing work.
- Recharter might better engage members in broader goals.
- In either case, a workshop might help to fully establish wide range of goals supportable by current and prospective W3C members.
Name. Possible rename to better communicate value proposition of efficient (small+fast+correct) data handling.
- EXI: classic, known (sorta)
- noparse: fast, high performance, low memory
- ED Efficient Data: indicates broad scope
- others?
Functional goals.
- EXI 2 goals have been collected as we have progressed: https://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/wiki/EXI2
- Aggregate document collections (similar to zip or tar)
- Recommended (canonical?) EXI encodings for HTML SVG CSS JavaScript JSON MathML
- Referring to canonical EXI compression of an XML Schema to allow valid out-of-band transmission.
- Integration into Web infrastructure (http servers, native-EXI XSLT parsers, etc.)
Application areas.
- Digital publishing
- Small devices
- Big data
- XML security
Related W3C Working Groups. Each group presents needs of related interest, with several being quite major.
- Automotive WG
- CSS WG
- Dataset Exchange WG
- HTML WG
- Publishing WG
- Semantic Web IG (e.g. special handling for triples needed?)
- SVG WG
- Technical Architecture Group (TAG) guidance
- Timed Text WG
- Web Application Security WG
- Web Authentication WG
- Web Assembly WG
- Web of Things WG/IG
- Web Performance WG
- XSLT WG
Appreciation and thanks for feedback from multiple EXI participants to build this initial list of issues.
Looking forward to further dialog on email, also online at the next EXI teleconference 26 FEB 2018.
all the best, Don
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