Rechartering (URGENT)

Folks,

As a result of W3 mgt feedback I'm thinking of adding some more specific text to the GEO WG charter about goals for the next two years.   This would enable us to give the Advisory Committee a more concrete idea of things we will be working on. While I don't want to indicate specific documents we will produce, I think that it would be helpful to set ourselves goals in particular areas.  

We need to add this text in the next day or so.

After some thought, I would suggest the following:


Revamp existing techniques documents move to WG Note status techniques relating to:

- character encoding declaration

- markup for right to left scripts

Create a tutorial related to markup for right to left scripts (I already have some slides to base this on), and update tutorials relating to character encoding and language declaration.

Develop new deliverables in the following areas:

- develop a dialogue with major search engine developers about use of language declarations (I have some leads for this from the Localization World conference I have been attending this week)

- develop recommendations for navigation in multilingual sites

- develop techniques for CSS styling, now and in the future, to support Chinese, Japanese and Korean documents (these address the needs of the currently biggest language groups using the Web)

- develop recommendations for authoring tool developers relating to language and character encoding declarations

- develop some short 'how-to' guides relating to XSLT (extends us beyond XHTML & CSS)

We will also need to assist the ITS WG in the development of guidelines related to DTD/XML Schema design.

Do you object to me adding the above?  Do you propose any changes? Anything else we should do?

RI




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Received on Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:17:31 UTC