(Fwd) Start of refinement for a draft Internationalization Working Group charter

Dear members of the Internationalization Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Start of refinement for a draft Internationalization Working 
Group charter
Date:  Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:27:34 +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 Internationalization Working Group charter:
https://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/i18n-wg/charter.html

The mission of the Internationalization Working Group is to enable 
universal access to the World Wide Web by proposing and coordinating the 
adoption by the W3C of techniques, conventions, technologies, and 
designs that enable and enhance the use of W3C technology and the Web 
worldwide, with and between various different languages, scripts, 
regions, and cultures.

The draft new charter now includes Internationalization Glossary and W3C 
HTML Ruby Markup Extensions as REC-track deliverables. Ruby 
Text-to-speech and Message Resources are added as tentative deliverables.

We encourage early discussion of this draft charter in the Strategy issue:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/534

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 
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 2026-01-13.

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

More information about the group can be found on its group page [3], 
including information about group Chairs, Staff Contacts, 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/i18n-core/