Seeking input on Media Working Group re-chartering after May 2023

Hi Media Working Group participants,

The current charter [1] of the Media Working Group expires end of May. 
To continue beyond that date, the group needs to re-charter. Starting 
point is to prepare a new draft charter that can be reviewed and 
approved by the group itself, horizontal activities (accessibility, 
internationalization, privacy and security), W3C management, and W3C's 
Advisory Committee. Some of them may run in parallel but some delays 
cannot be compressed and the whole review process often takes 2-3 
months.

An initial draft charter is available at:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-media-wg/

That initial draft is the current charter, on which I applied a few 
updates:
- I incorporated latest boilerplate changes made to W3C's charter 
template [2]. These changes are clarifications and improvements. They 
should not change the charter substantially.
- I refreshed the list of deliverables [3] to:
   * align the descriptions with latest process requirements (explicitly 
documenting the "adopted draft", "exclusion draft", and "exclusion draft 
charter")
   * move Audio Focus to the main list of normative deliverables 
following its adoption by the group this month
   * add a "Registries" section to highlight the work on registries that 
the group has been doing (this was mentioned in the previous charter as 
well under the "Other deliverables" section). The new section lists all 
registration specs that the group has created so far
   * extend the note that says that the group may decide to publish 
registrations spec on the Recommendation track (instead of as Notes as 
currently done) to also cover WebCodecs registrations. We may drop the 
note entirely if that seems very unlikely

Diff from the current charter is available at [4].

Work that remains on the draft charter:
- We need to define expected completion dates for each of the 
deliverables. These dates are hard to get right, and the ones that are 
in the current charter typically turned out to be too optimistic. Can we 
do better this time?
- We need to check deliverables and potential deliverables that the 
group did not really progress in the past couple of years, and re-assess 
plans. These include EME, Media Playback Quality (to be integrated in 
HTML), and the DataCue API. Progress on any of them by the time the 
group gets re-chartered would help to keep them in the list.
- If you want to change the scope of the group in any way, now would be 
a good time to say so!

Source is on GitHub:
https://github.com/w3c/charter-media-wg

Feel free to raise issues on the GitHub repository or on the 
mailing-list.

Timing-wise, ideally we would have a semi-final draft charter ready by 
early March so that I can initiate other review steps.

Thanks,
Francois.

[1] https://www.w3.org/2021/07/media-wg-charter.html
[2] https://github.com/w3c/charter-media-wg/pull/32/files
[3] https://github.com/w3c/charter-media-wg/pull/33/files
[4] 
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2021%2F07%2Fmedia-wg-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fw3c.github.io%2Fcharter-media-wg%2F

Received on Wednesday, 1 February 2023 08:20:29 UTC