- From: Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:49:17 +0800
- To: public-tvcontrol@w3.org
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/ ------ Results of Charter Call for Review ------ 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 ----- 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
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