(Fwd) VOTE by 2026-08-11: Proposed Charter for the WebAssembly Working Group; Current Charter Extended

Dear members of the WebAssembly Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  VOTE by 2026-08-11: Proposed Charter for the WebAssembly 
Working Group; Current Charter Extended
Date:  Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:28:45 +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]

This is a Call for Review of a proposed recharter for the WebAssembly 
Working Group:
https://www.w3.org/2026/06/webassembly-wg.html

Please review the charter and indicate your support using this online form:
https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/webassembly-charter-2026/

The deadline for responses is 23:59 UTC on 11 August 2026 [0].

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.

The proposed charter adds three new normative deliverables, as follows:

* WebAssembly Code Metadata Specification defines the format and 
semantics of extra information attached to a WebAssembly module.
* WebAssembly Legacy Extensions Core Specification defines extensions to 
the WebAssembly Core Specification that are deprecated, but may still be 
in use.
* WebAssembly Legacy Extensions JavaScript Interface defines extensions 
to the WebAssembly JavaScript Interface that are deprecated, but may 
still be in use.

The proposed Team resource for this group remains at 0.1 FTE.

The Advisory Committee Representatives of current participants will need 
to have their organizations re-join the group if the revised charter 
gets approved.

For all information about the review and progress of this charter 
(including horizontal reviews), please see:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/533

A disposition of comments on the draft charter is available at:
https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/blob/gh-pages/2026/wasm-wg-doc.md

To see all changes relative to the current charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2023%2Fwasm-wg-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2026%2F06%2Fwebassembly-wg.html

The current charter [1] is hereby extended until 31 August 2026 to 
accommodate the charter review period.

More information about the group can be found on its home page [2], 
including information about group Chairs, Team Contact, and instructions 
for joining the group.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Michael[tm] Smith (sideshowbarker) <mike@w3.org>, Team Contact for the 
WebAssembly Working Group.

This charter review and extension follow Section 4.4 and Section 4.6 of  
the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#CharterReview
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-extension

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy,
Michael[tm] Smith, Team Contact for the WebAssembly Working Group;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[0] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20260811T2359&p1=1440
[1] https://www.w3.org/2023/wasm-wg-charter.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/wasm/