- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:53:32 -0500
- To: whatwg@whatwg.org, Chris Wilson <chris.wilson@microsoft.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Hi, W3C chartered a new HTML Working Group today. http://www.w3.org/html/wg/ http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter In recognition of the WHAT WG requirements gathering, design, testing, and review efforts, and on the advice of various W3C member organizations, the W3C HTML Working Group is chartered to "actively pursue convergence with WHATWG, encouraging open participation within the bounds of the W3C patent policy and available resources." So please do consider participating. Administration of the W3C patent policy does involve a bit of administrative overhead; I hope you'll agree that it's worthwhile, in the interest of the goal of assuring that Recommendations produced under this policy can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis. Ian Hixie wrote a good summary of the steps for joining the Working Group. http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/009887.html http://blog.whatwg.org/w3c-restarts-html-effort I see that several people are several steps into that process. I hope I can tend to those presently. I'm traveling this week, so I hope you'll excuse a bit of a delay. Ian also notes that "Surprisingly, the W3C never actually contacted the WHATWG during the chartering process." Oops. I hope you'll excuse that too. Getting this working group chartered was a very involved process, and I suppose I dropped a few balls along the way. I hope not too many. I look forward to working on HTML with you. p.s. I am copying public-html@w3.org; note that if you reply all, you'll be greeted by the W3C archive approval anti-spam robots, unless you have already been through that ritual. http://www.w3.org/2002/09/aa/ -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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