Intel Leaving NFC WG

We're finished with the clean up work we needed to do and are leaving 
the NFC WG.  The previous email had a link to the final draft of the 
approach in the published First Public Working Draft [1] in the form 
that would be needed to publish it as a WG Note.   We don't see how that 
could advance to a Recommendation due to lack of implementations, so a 
WG Note seems the way to publish.  The NFC WG charter expired 1 November 
2014. We don't think the Charter should be extended or renewed because 
the WG was never able to attract multiple implementers.  We tried our 
best, as Chair and Editors, but as in SysApps WG, the issue is whether 
it will have implementations that are used broadly.

The Web NFC Community Group [2] is developing a Web NFC API for the 
usual Web security model used in Web Browsers (with a couple of the 
Browser companies in it already).  This approach is very similar to and 
likely will benefit from the work in the Web Bluetooth Community Group [3].

For a more powerful API used in standalone apps (like the NFC WG and 
SysApps WG, not using the Web security model), an extension API that 
builds on top of the Web API could be developed for use outside the Web 
Security model.  That would likely be in a different CG, since the 
people joining the new Web NFC CG weren't interested in that, at least 
not at this point. In the future, developments coming out of the Trust 
and Permissions Community Group [4] may enable more powerful APIs under 
a new Web Security model in the future.

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-nfc/2015Mar/0020.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/community/web-nfc/
[3] https://www.w3.org/community/web-bluetooth/
[4] https://www.w3.org/community/trustperms/