Summary of TAG activity from 10 Nov to 10 Dec 2003

Dear www-tag,

This is a summary of the TAG's activity from 10 Nov 2003 
(end date of the previous summary [1]) to 10 Dec 2003.

The TAG held four teleconferences and one face-to-face
meeting (in Japan) during this period. Summaries of those 
meetings are linked from the TAG home page [2].

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2003Nov/0052
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

1) Architecture Document

  The TAG is pleased to report that it started a Last Call review
  of "Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition" during
  this period. The Last Call Working Draft is available at:

     http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webarch-20031209/

  The Last Call review period ends 5 March 2004, at 23:59 ET The
  TAG encourages you to send Last Call review comments on this
  document before that date to the public W3C TAG mailing list
  public-webarch-comments@w3.org. Archive:
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webarch-comments/

  The W3C Communications Team issued a press release about the
  Last Call, available at:
    http://www.w3.org/2003/12/tag-pressrelease.html.en

  The list of changes to the Architecture Document is available
  at: 
    http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/webarch/changes

2) Issues

  The TAG accepted two issues during this period:

   ultimateQuestion-42: What is the answer to life, the 
                       universe, and everything?

           [Note: This issue was accepted in good humor; cf.
                  the works of Douglas Adams (1952-2001).]
                  
   DerivedResources-43: How are secondary resources derived?

  In addition to those issues, the TAG decided the following
  issues: rdfmsQnameUriMapping-6, errorHandling-20, and
  contentTypeOverride-24.

  Details about discussions and related actions are available in
  the meeting minutes linked from the TAG's home page. The TAG's
  issues list is available at: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ilist

3) Findings

  The TAG did not publish any new findings during this period.

  The TAG revised one draft finding:
   "Client handling of authoritative metadata", 10 Dec draft.
    http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect-20031210

  The TAG continues to work on a number of other draft
  findings. More information about TAG findings is available at:
    http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/findings

4) Communication

  The TAG participated in a Town Hall session at XML 2003, where
  the group announced the beginning of the Last Call review
  period and participated in discussion about the document with
  attendees.
  
     http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2003/tuesday.asp#38

5) Upcoming events

  The TAG will hold its next face-to-face meeting during the
  Technical Plenary Week 2003 in Mandelieu, France. During that
  week, the TAG will also meet with other Working Groups to
  discuss comments on the Last Call draft and to make progress
  on architecture topics of mutual interest.
  

For co-Chairs Stuart Williams and Tim Berners-Lee,
Ian Jacobs

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