Web and TV Interest Group Charter

The mission of the Web and TV Interest Group (WebTV IG), part of the W3C Ubiquitous Web Domain, is to provide a forum for review of deliverables under development by other W3C groups; to identify requirements and potential solutions to ensure that the Web can function effectively on TV; and to propose work items either in the form of new W3C Working Groups, or specific work that should be done in existing Working Groups.

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End date	30 June 2013
Confidentiality	Proceedings are Public.
Initial Chairs	FUNAHASHI Yosuke - Tomo-Digi KAWAMORI Masahito - NTT Giuseppe PASCALE - Opera Software
Initial Team Contacts (FTE %: 10)	Kazuyuki Ashimura
Usual Meeting Schedule	Teleconferences: No teleconferences Face-to-face: Between none and two annually

Scope

The Web and TV Interest Group's scope of work includes:

Identification of important requirements for the Web to function effectively on TV;
review and discussion of deliverables under development by other W3C groups, which touch on the use of the Web on TV;
exploration of barriers to the Web working on TV, and potential solutions;
exchanging information about Web and TV activities around the world.

Success Criteria

Participation via mailing list subscription and postings from people representing various stakeholer communities, including braodcasters, hardware and software developers, application developers, regulators and users.
Members of the Interest Group join relevant Working Groups and drive the development of work items.
Constructive feedback on W3C deliverables posted for review on the Web and TV IG mailing list.

Deliverables

The primary deliverables of the Web and TV Interest Group are recommendations for work items to ensure that the Web can function on TV. These will either take the form of recommendations to (and participation in) existing working groups, or proposals for and participation in one or more new Working Groups, according to the nature of the work that needs to be done.

In addition the group will review and comment on draft documents from W3C groups; and raise issues that relate to the core mission of the Interest Group.

Timelines

The Interest Group should deliver a preliminary set of work recommendations by 24 December 2010. These shall be based on the results of the W3C Web on TV workshop held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2010, and input provided to the Interest Group. These can take the form of requirements presented to existing W3C Working Groups, and / or proposed new work requiring a new Working Group to be chartered.

Timelines for review of work from other groups will depend on the deliverables from those groups being available. Participants in this group should expect between two and four weeks to review relevant deliverables.

Dependencies and Liaisons

W3C Groups

The Web and TV IG provides a forum for review and discussion of draft deliverables from many W3C groups. Among the most important groups are likely to be:

Web format Groups: CSS Working group; Device APIs and Policies Working Group; Geolocation Working Group; HTML Working Group; SVG Working Group; Web Applications Working Group; Web Notification Working Group
Horizontal groups: Web accessibility Initiative (most technical groups); Internationalisation Activity

External Groups

There are a number of external groups important to the TV industry, or working in related areas. The Interest Group should maintain communication with groups such as

TV Industry: OIPF / HbbTV; ITU-T
Mobile Industry: WAC
Internet technology: IETF
Consumer Electronics Industry

This is not intended as an exhuastive list, but illustrative of groups working on related technologies

Participation

Participation in the Web and TV Interest Group is open to the public. There are no minimum requirements for participation in this group. Participants are strongly encouraged to take advantage of frequent opportunities to review and comment on deliverables from other groups.

The Chair may call occasional meetings consistent with the W3C Process requirements for meetings.

Communication

This group primarily conducts its work on the public mailing list public-web-tv@w3.org (archive). Specific documents under review usually have a designated mailing list for comments, which is included in the document itself and in the review notice.

Information about the group (documents under review, face-to-face meetings, etc.) is available from the Web and TV Interest Group home page.

Decision Policy

Consistent with its mission, this group is not a decision-making body, but rather provides a forum for discussion and advice on different topics relating to the Web and TV. Where there is agreement among the group on requirements, these will be forwarded as a consensus position. Where the group does not reach agreement, the different positions will be forwarded, with any decisions to be made by a relevant woorking group according to its processes.

Patent Disclosures

The Web and TV Interest Group provides an opportunity to share perspectives on the topic addressed by this charter. W3C reminds Interest Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Interest Group does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when Interest Group participants review Recommendation-track specifications from Working Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do apply.

For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.

About this Charter

This charter has been created according to section 6.2 of the Process Document. In the event of a conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.

Charter authors: Charles McCathieNevile, Kazuyuki Ashimura

$Date: 2010-09-16$