RE: Welcome / introductions

Hi Friends,

I’m Tzviya (pronounced tsvEE-yuh) Siegman. I work for Wiley, a publishing company. I have been involved in the W3C for about 6 years, since the Publishing Activity began. I am co-chair of the Publishing Activity. I also co-chair the W3C’s Advisory Board. I have been involved in standards since 2008, when I first began to work on EPUB. I work with standards organizations that focus on the scholarly publishing industry as well.

I am here because I have seen how difficult it is to make things work from multiple perspectives. Ebooks are a thriving ecosystem that heavily rely on browsers, but they need to be improved to keep up with the needs of users. Publishing, in its rock, sheepskin, papyrus, paper forms, has been around for millennia. Respecting the nuances of that history while working technology that evolves overnight has proven challenging.

I have been deeply involved in examining how to move the W3C forward. Understanding the W3C’s position in the context of other standards organizations, evolving policy, and a world that relies on technology significantly more than it did when the organization was founded is crucial to helping the W3C evolve. Our existing processes and missions are brittle, and we must improve them. If we are to have a position in the world of policy and regulation, we should figure out our own position(s) first. I believe that the W3C is capable of this and has indeed been doing this for years without calling it policy.

I am in the US Eastern time, and I look forward to speaking with all of you.

Tzviya

Tzviya Siegman
Information Standards Principal
Wiley
201-748-6884
tsiegman@wiley.com<mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com>

From: Chris Riley <me@mchrisriley.com>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2021 1:26 PM
To: public-interop-remedies@w3.org
Subject: Re: Welcome / introductions

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Thanks Mark, and thanks to all who have gone before me, it's great to read about your backgrounds and perspectives. Returning from the American holiday, my name is Chris Riley, and I recently joined W3C as an individual member for purposes of engaging with this process, after having been on the margins of W3C working through colleagues during my 7 years running global public policy for Mozilla (and other pathways prior to that).

These days, I work with the nonprofit Brave New Software Project (not affiliated with Brave Software the browser company) and wearing that hat I'm developing a new concept for a nonprofit run tech-for-good incubator; I'm also a resident senior fellow for internet governance at the R Street Institute where I engage in more traditional think tank policy work. I've spent my career at the intersection of technology/law/governance issues, and have written and spoken extensively over the past few years on interoperability (e.g. from 2017<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/medium.com/@mchrisriley/competition-through-interoperability-3ed34a5c55f1__;!!N11eV2iwtfs!q3SWJVfNjyJJOQarfnTTz30Cykem4PgZlNJVkhcBFklcH8LZZ86RdnH4TTLCbHNO8_u1ATvLUdJC$> to my most recent piece this summer in CPI<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/interoperability-as-a-lens-onto-regulatory-paradigms/__;!!N11eV2iwtfs!q3SWJVfNjyJJOQarfnTTz30Cykem4PgZlNJVkhcBFklcH8LZZ86RdnH4TTLCbHNO8_u1AaDo2WzY$> [paywalled, but I can share a copy with individuals if interested]). As a long-time supporter of interoperability intervention by government actors who nevertheless understands the many pitfalls along that route, I'm eager to engage with this group to see what we can develop that complements the current interest by regulators.

I call home in the objectively suboptimal Pacific Time Zone (based in a SF Bay Area suburb); I do make early hours available (e.g. 5:30/6am) so friends in Europe in particular don't constantly have to sacrifice their evenings.

Cheers,
Chris

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 9:50 PM Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net<mailto:mnot@mnot.net>> wrote:
Hello everyone. Welcome to the Community Group!

We're just getting started, so please excuse the quiet while we wait for people to join and allow the Americans their holiday. I'm aiming to hold an online meeting before the end of the year, so that we can start discussing how the group will function and what we want to focus on first.

However, it'd first be good to get to know each other.  Please send an e-mail introducing yourself, including:

* A brief summary of your background
* Why you're participating in this group
* Where you call home (so we can try to schedule meetings when it's not *too* painful for anyone)

I'll start below.

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My name is Mark Nottingham, and I'm one of the folks who supported formation of this Community Group and coordinated drafting of the charter.

I've worked in Internet and Web standards for more than 20 years, having chaired a few different groups (including HTTP and QUIC), authoring many RFCs (including the most recent revision of HTTP), and also being a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group and Internet Architecture Board.  I currently work for Fastly, a US-based Content Delivery Network, and I'm also working on a Graduate Diploma in Communications Law at Melbourne Law School.

I'm excited about combining architecturally sound, open specifications with the potential for a legal mandate from regulators -- while there are many risks, there are also opportunities to improve the Internet in ways that haven't been possible to date.

I'm located in Melbourne, Australia.

Cheers,


P.S. If you haven't seen the group home page, please take a look at: https://interop-remedies-cg.github.io<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/interop-remedies-cg.github.io__;!!N11eV2iwtfs!q3SWJVfNjyJJOQarfnTTz30Cykem4PgZlNJVkhcBFklcH8LZZ86RdnH4TTLCbHNO8_u1AckzEJ96$>

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