Internationalization Groups Charter Extended; Addison Phillips re-appointed Chair of the Working Group

Dear Members of the Internationalization Groups,

FYI, the Internationalization Groups are extended trough 30 June 2019.

Best regards,
Xueyuan

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Internationalization Groups Charter Extended; Addison Phillips 
re-appointed Chair of the Working Group
Date:  Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:51:10 +0800
From:  xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org
CC:  chairs@w3.org




Dear Advisory Committee representative,
Chairs,

The Internationalization Group charters are hereby extended until 30 
June 2019:

   Internationalization Working Group
   https://www.w3.org/International/core/charter-2016.html

   Internationalization Interest Group
   https://www.w3.org/International/ig/charter-2016.html

   Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Interest Group
   https://www.w3.org/International/its/ig/charter-2016.html

The Internationalization Working Group is continuing its mission, 
pending ongoing negotiations between WHATWG and W3C, impacting the 
Encoding specification.

While progress in this negotiation has been made since November there is 
no agreement in place yet.

The i18n Working Group and Interest Group have been preparing re-charter 
proposal in the meantime. Draft charters are available at:

PROPOSED Internationalization (i18n) Working Group Charter
https://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/i18n-wg/proposed-charter-2019-2020.html

PROPOSED Internationalization (i18n) Interest Group Charter
https://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/i18n-ig/proposed-charter-2019-2020.html

Additionally, Addison Phillips is now re-appointed as the i18n Working 
Group Chair. He was previously a W3C Invited Expert and is now 
representing Amazon.

The groups are currently chaired by: Addison Phillips (Amazon) for i18n 
WG, Martin Dürst (W3C Invited Expert) for i18n IG, Phil Ritchie 
(VistaTEC) for ITS IG.

More information about the groups and information about participation 
can be found on their home pages.

- Internationalization Working Group [1]
- Internationalization Interest Group [2]
- Internationalization Tag Set Interest Group [3]

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>.

This announcement follows section 5.1 and section 5.2.5 of the W3C 
Process Document:
    https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#ReqsAllGroups
    https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#charter-extension

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philippe Le Hégaret, Project Management Lead, and
Richard Ishida, Internationalization Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/i18n-wg/
[2] http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/i18n-ig/
[3] http://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/its-ig/

Received on Thursday, 21 February 2019 02:30:44 UTC