TV Control Working Group Charter Approved; join the TV Control Working Group (Call for Participation)

Dear TV Control Working Group,

The Director is pleased to announce the approval of the TV Control 
Working Group charter:
https://www.w3.org/2016/03/tvcontrol.html

This group is chartered until 31 March 2017.

The mission of the TV Control Working Group is to provide methods that 
enable a Web page to browse and control channel-based audio and video 
sources such as a TV or a radio tuner. See the Scope section of the 
charter for additional details:
https://www.w3.org/2016/03/tvcontrol.html#scope

Use the following form to join the group. The form will also instruct 
you how to nominate participants:
https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/90021/join

The Working Group chair is Chris Needham (BBC). The initial Team Contact 
is François Daoust for a total of 0.10 FTE.

The Working Group plans to have its first face-to-face meeting during 
TPAC, September 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal.

More information about the TV Control Working Group can be found on its 
home page:
https://www.w3.org/2016/tvcontrol/


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Results of Charter Call for Review
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We called for charter review on 16 February 2016:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2016JanMar/0024.html

Thanks to the 31 Members who provided input:
<https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/tvcontrol/results>.

26 supported the charter, 5 abstained. Several changes were suggested 
and were reflected in the approved charter, including:
* The charter is now explicit that audio descriptions and captioning are 
in scope.
* The need to address access restrictions, and security and privacy 
concerns has been emphasized.
* The need to align the semantics of the API with existing metadata 
vocabularies has been clarified, and the schema.org CG has been added to 
the coordination list.

Review comments and a detailed Disposition of Comments are available at:
https://www.w3.org/2016/03/tvcontrol-doc.html

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This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 5.2.4 of the W3C Process
Document:
http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#cfp

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philipp Hoschka, Ubiquitous Web Domain Lead, and
François Daoust, TV Control Working Group Staff Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

Received on Tuesday, 19 April 2016 07:47:23 UTC