FW: Work in progress on WebAssembly Working Group Charter (Advance Notice)

This is a heads-up to members of the WebAssembly Community Group that earlier
today the W3C sent out of the following public message to inform the community
as a whole about our plans to create a W3C WebAssembly Working Group.

  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2017May/0009.html

As the message mentions, we also sent a separate similar notice to the W3C
Advisory Committee to let them know we will soon be putting forward to them a
formal Call for Review of the proposed WebAssembly Working Group charter.

Between now and then I will be wrapping up W3C team-internal review of the
proposed charter toward getting W3C management approval to start the formal Call
for Review with the W3C Advisory Committee.

  —Mike

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To: public-new-work@w3.org
From: Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 18:37:01 +0800
Subject: Work in progress on WebAssembly Working Group Charter (Advance  Notice)
Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/2a19caaa-9034-e770-734a-40dadd540994@w3.org>

Hello,

The W3C Advisory Committee received an advance notice today that the W3C team
invites input on the possible charter of a new WebAssembly Working Group.

The W3C has started a conversation with the WebAssembly Community Group (CG)
[1] members and chair about coordination on formation of a Working Group in
parallel to the WebAssembly CG, with a plan to adopt the WebAssembly
specification as a deliverable for the Working Group.

A draft charter for the planned Working Group is available at [2], and a draft
scope statement reads as follows:

>  The scope of the WebAssembly Working Group includes addressing the need for
>  native-performance code on the Web in applications ranging from 3D games to
>  speech recognition to codecs—and in any other contexts in which a common
>  mechanism for enabling high-performance code is relevant—by providing a
>  standard portable, size- and load-time-efficient format that attempts to
>  maximize performance and interoperate gracefully with JavaScript and the Web,
>  while ensuring security.

Anyone with interest in the WebAssembly format—both the public and W3C
Members—are invited to review the draft charter and plans (in this message)
and to share their views on the WebAssembly CG mailing list
<public-webassembly@w3.org> (archive [3]). W3C Members may also send general
expressions of interest, support, and comments on the <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>
mailing list.

It is expected that a formal Call for Review to the W3C Advisory Committee
will be initiated within the next four weeks.

If you have any questions or need further information, please directly contact
Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org>, W3C staff representative responsible for
planning the development of this proposed Working Group.

This advance notice is sent as we develop work in the W3C Strategy Funnel:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/projects/2#card-2852484

and per the section 5.2.2 of W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#WGCharterDevelopment

Early input and wide review—before the formal Call for Review to the W3C
Advisory Committee—help us to produce better charters.

Thank you,
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/
[2] https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/webassembly.html
[3] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/

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Michael[tm] Smith https://people.w3.org/mike