News Release: W3C Community Convenes to Discuss Future of HTML, Health of Internet Ecosystem

W3C Community Convenes to Discuss Future of HTML, Health of Internet 
Ecosystem

Silicon Valley Developers Invited to Discuss Open Standards Development 
at Public Gathering

http://www.w3.org/ — 6 October 2009 — The W3C community convenes next 
month in Santa Clara, California for TPAC Week 2009, this year's edition 
of an annual week-long opportunity for W3C group participants to share 
news of progress and to address hot-button technical issues face-to-face.

The Internet Society (ISOC), as part of its mission to support the 
development of open standards, will sponsor TPAC 2009 and actively 
participate in the event. In addition to ISOC representatives, 
participants from other standards development organizations will join in 
discussion about the health of the "Internet Ecosystem."

"The Internet Society is pleased to support and participate in the 
important work of the W3C community around TPAC 2009," said Leslie 
Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer of the Internet Society. "The 
Internet's immense success as a platform for innovation over the past 40 
years has been built on a foundation of open standards, and its 
continued evolution will be driven by efforts such as those led by the W3C."

"I'm pleased that the Internet Society is sponsoring and participating 
in TPAC 2009," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "ISOC and W3C both 
work to foster the open development of standards that empower users 
around the world. A lot of social networking happens during TPAC, and 
this year there will be an even greater number of participants from the 
broader open standards community."

A FAQ about ISOC and W3C is available for more information.

Developer Gathering Offers New Opportunity for Interaction
[Thursday, 5 November, 1pm - 6pm PT]

For the first time, W3C is organizing a Developer Gathering, open to the 
public, where developers can join an afternoon of discussion and 
networking. People involved in various W3C groups and other 
organizations will lead the free exchange of opinions and feedback among 
all participants. Speakers include:

     * Arun Ranganathan on APIs;
     * Elika Etemad on CSS;
     * Philippe Le Hégaret on W3C spearheading public development of a 
browser test suite;
     * Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, on controversies 
around international domain names

W3C encourages those not already participating in W3C groups to 
register, but please note that space is limited to 100 people. More 
information about participation and the registration fee is available on 
the meeting page.

Media Invited to Breakfast on 3 November
[Tuesday, 3 November, 7:30am - 8:30am PT]

Representatives from a select number of W3C groups will introduce the 
hot topics that will be addressed during the Wednesday Plenary Session 
(HTML 5, Internet Ecosystem, eGovernance), followed by a question and 
answer session. For more information, see the media breakfast 
information page. To register, please send email to w3t-pr@w3.org.

Plenary Day to Address HTML 5, Internet Ecosystem, Privacy Challenges, More

On the Wednesday, 4 November, there is a plenary session open to all W3C 
group participants. The W3C plenary session will include discussions on:

     * HTML 5 support for decentralized extensibility
     * Maintaining a healthy Internet ecosystem -- challenges to an open 
Internet infrastructure
     * Government Transparency and Accountability; what more can the Web 
(and W3C) do to help?
     * Privacy challenges arising from more powerful Web Applications

The proceedings of the plenary session are public.


EDITORS' NOTES:
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Web Resources:
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This press release:
   - in English: http://www.w3.org/2009/11/tpac2009-pr.html.en
   - in French: http://www.w3.org/2009/11/tpac2009-pr.html.fr
   - in other translations:
     http://www.w3.org/Press/Overview.html#x2009-tpac

TPAC Week 2009:
     http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/
W3C Developer Gathering:
     http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/DevMeeting
Media Breakfast Information page:
     http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/MediaBreakfast
Plenary Session:
     http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/PlenaryAgenda
FAQ about ISOC and W3C:
     http://www.w3.org/2009/11/isoc-w3c-faq

Media Contacts:
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Contact Americas, Australia —
     Ian Jacobs, <ij@w3.org>, +1.718.260.9447 or +1.617.253.2613
Contact Europe, Africa and the Middle East —
     Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33 6 76 86 33 41
Contact Asia —
     Naoko Ishikura, <keio-contact@w3.org>, +81.466.49.1170

About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]:
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where 
Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to 
develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the 
creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term 
growth for the Web. Over 350 organizations are Members of the 
Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and 
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European 
Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) 
headquartered in France and Keio University in Japan, and has additional 
Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org/

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