Discussions on www-i18n-workshop@w3.org

The purpose of the W3C Internationalization Workshop [w3c-i18n-ws] was
to gather information to assist the W3C in drawing up new charters for
the W3C Internationalization Activity and for the Working Groups(s) and
Interest Group(s) making up this rechartered Activity.

The Workshop participants considered that the following topics are
important [conclusions]:

  Guidelines, best practices
  Existing work (reviews, character model, liaisons)
  Distributed services incl Web services, locales, collations
  Education & Outreach
  Localizability
  Gathering user requirements/solutions
  Multilingual domain names (IDN)

The purpose of the current discussion on the www-i18n-workshop list is
not solving any of these problems, but rather answering questions such
as:

1.  Why is topic X important?
2.  Why should the W3C work on topic X?
3.  How can you and your organization help with the work on topic X?

Though the discussions have shed some light on points 1 and 2, they have
been pretty silent on point 3.  W3C Working Groups (WGs) are made up of
employees of Member organisations and Invited Experts.  For a given
topic to be included in a WG charter requires commitment from potential
WG members (including a suitable potential Chair).  It would be most
helpful if people who want to see a particular topic included in the new
charters *and are willing to put sustained work into it* would write to
the www-i18n-workshop list, offering their services, and giving their
status vis-a-vis the W3C (eg employee of Member organisation Y).

[w3c-i18n-ws] http://www.w3.org/2002/02/01-i18n-workshop
[conclusions] http://www.w3.org/2002/02/01-i18n-workshop/consensus

Thanks,
Misha Wolf
W3C I18N WG Chair





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