Near Field Communications Working Group now Closed

Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
Chairs,
Near Field Communications Working Group members,

The Near Field Communications Working Group [1] is now closed.

The group has been working on the NFC API specification between October  
2012 and November 2014, and the charter [2] period for the group has  
expired. During the charter period, the group published the NFC API First  
Public Working Draft [3] on 14 January 2014.

After the charter expiration, we have been considering how to continue the  
group's work to bring the NFC API specification to the stage of  
Recommendation. However, we could not get enough support from browser  
vendors for the specification and its implementations due to several  
issues. The Director has now made a decision to close the Working Group.

We would like to thank the Working Group Chair, Jacques Bourhis (Intel)  
and all the participants in the group for their efforts.

This announcement follows section 6.2.8 of the Process Document [4].

Please note that there is a new Web NFC Community Group [5] that will work  
on a Web-based NFC API specification for Web Browsers.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2012/nfc/
[2] http://www.w3.org/2012/09/nfc-wg-charter
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-nfc-20140114/
[4] http://www.w3.org/2014/Process-20140801/#GeneralTermination
[5] https://www.w3.org/community/web-nfc/

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philipp Hoschka, Ubiquitous Web Domain Leader,
Kazuyuki Ashimura, NFC Working Group Team Contact;
Coralie Mercier, Acting Head of W3C Marketing & Communications

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  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Friday, 10 April 2015 12:31:53 UTC