Re: Proposal for New W3C Interest Group on AI Visibility Optimization

 > As a W3C participant, I propose forming a new interest group focused 
on AI Visibility Optimization (AIVO) - ensuring structured, trustworthy, 
and machine-readable content is surfaced and correctly attributed within 
AI-driven search and recommendation environments.
 > With AI search systems (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) 
increasingly mediating discovery, the technical requirements for 
visibility and attribution are diverging from traditional SEO. This 
creates urgent challenges in:
 >
 >   *
 > Citation integrity and machine attribution
 >   *
 > Entity clarity across multimodal content
 >   *
 > Prompt indexing and retrieval performance
 >   *
 > Bias mitigation in model recommendation layers
 >
 > The AIVO Standard, a peer-reviewed framework I recently published, 
formalizes these requirements into measurable benchmarks. It is 
available here on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16410942.
 > The framework aligns with existing structured data vocabularies 
(e.g., Schema.org) and supports multilingual entity resolution.

Tim,

I cannot imagine W3C being interested in creating a dedicated interest 
for your proposal. Interest groups aren't meant to iterate on specific 
proposals. We've been working on a more general approach for an interest 
group [1] but only for the purpose of a discussion forum.

However, if you're interested in incubating your proposal, I encourage 
you to look at our list of current community groups [2] and check if an 
existing would fit your scope [3]. If that's not the case, you may want 
to propose one ("Anyone may propose a new Community Group").

Thank you,

Philippe Le Hegaret,
VP, Technical Strategy

[1] https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/511
[2] https://www.w3.org/community/groups/
[3] https://www.w3.org/community/groups/propose_cg/

Received on Friday, 22 August 2025 17:55:26 UTC