Start of refinement for a draft WebTransport Working Group charter

Dear members of the WebTransport Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Start of refinement for a draft WebTransport Working Group 
charter
Date:  Wed, 6 May 2026 21:32:52 +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 WebTransport Working Group charter:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/webtransport-wg-charter.html

The mission of the WebTransport Working Group is to develop APIs that 
enable data transfer between browsers and servers with support for 
multiple data flows, unidirectional data flows, out-of-order delivery, 
variable reliability and pluggable protocols.

We encourage early discussion of this draft charter in this public forum:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/537

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 to seek 
consensus among those who provide feedback about the charter.

The W3C Team estimates that this charter refinement will last until 
approximately 2026-06-03.

If you have any questions or need further information, please feel free 
to contact the Chartering Facilitator, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>.

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

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