(Fwd) Start of refinement for a draft WebAssembly Working Group charter; current charter extended

Dear members of the WebAssembly Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Start of refinement for a draft WebAssembly Working Group 
charter; current charter extended
Date:  Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:26:10 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

With this charter review notice, the W3C Team initiates refinement for a 
draft WebAssembly Working Group charter:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/wasm-wg-charter.html

The mission of the WebAssembly Working Group is to standardize a 
size-efficient, load-time-efficient format and execution environment — 
allowing compilation to the web with consistent behavior across a 
variety of implementations.

We encourage early discussion of this draft charter in this public forum:
https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20in%3Atitle%20%28wasm%20OR%20webassembly%20OR%20%22web%20assembly%22%29

Members may use w3c-ac-forum@w3.org (archive [1]) for general 
expressions of interest and support for the charter, but please use the 
public forum for detailed discussion.

Section 4.2 of the Process Document [2] describes activities during 
charter refinement and the role of the Chartering Facilitator of this 
charter to seek consensus among those who provide feedback about it.

The W3C Team estimates that this charter refinement will last until 
approximately 2026-03-29.

If you should have any questions or need further information, please 
feel free to contact the Chartering Facilitator, Michael[tm] Smith 
(sideshowbarker) <mike@w3.org>.

The current charter [3] is hereby extended until 29 May 2026 to cover 
the time needed for the rechartering process.

More information about the group can be found on its home page [4], 
including information about group Chairs, Staff Contact, and 
instructions for joining the group.

This announcement follows sections 4.1 and 4.6 of the Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-initiation
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-extension

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/
[2] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-development
[3] https://www.w3.org/2023/wasm-wg-charter.html
[4] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/wasm/