Work in progress on WebAssembly Working Group Charter (Advance Notice)

Hello,

The W3C Advisory Committee received an advance notice today that the W3C 
team invites input on the possible charter of a new WebAssembly Working 
Group.

The W3C has started a conversation with the WebAssembly Community Group 
(CG) [1] members and chair about coordination on formation of a Working 
Group in parallel to the WebAssembly CG, with a plan to adopt the 
WebAssembly specification as a deliverable for the Working Group.

A draft charter for the planned Working Group is available at [2], and a 
draft scope statement reads as follows:

 >  The scope of the WebAssembly Working Group includes addressing the 
need for
 >  native-performance code on the Web in applications ranging from 3D 
games to
 >  speech recognition to codecs—and in any other contexts in which a common
 >  mechanism for enabling high-performance code is relevant—by providing a
 >  standard portable, size- and load-time-efficient format that attempts to
 >  maximize performance and interoperate gracefully with JavaScript and 
the Web,
 >  while ensuring security.

Anyone with interest in the WebAssembly format—both the public and W3C 
Members—are invited to review the draft charter and plans (in this 
message) and to share their views on the WebAssembly CG mailing list 
<public-webassembly@w3.org> (archive [3]). W3C Members may also send 
general expressions of interest, support, and comments on the 
<w3c-ac-forum@w3.org> mailing list.

It is expected that a formal Call for Review to the W3C Advisory 
Committee will be initiated within the next four weeks.

If you have any questions or need further information, please directly 
contact Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org>, W3C staff representative 
responsible for planning the development of this proposed Working Group.

This advance notice is sent as we develop work in the W3C Strategy Funnel:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/projects/2#card-2852484

and per the section 5.2.2 of W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#WGCharterDevelopment

Early input and wide review—before the formal Call for Review to the W3C 
Advisory Committee—help us to produce better charters.


Thank you,
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/
[2] https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/webassembly.html
[3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/

Received on Wednesday, 24 May 2017 10:34:05 UTC