Re: New SVG WG Charter

*SVG Working Group versus Graphics Working Group ?*

Re Doug's draft charter for the SVG WG 2016/2017. [1]

One area to discuss on the charter is whether it makes sense to expand the
group's responsibility beyond SVG markup.

When the HTML WG re-organized into the Web Platform WG, the Canvas 2D API
was left without an W3C host.  I don't think work is terribly active at
WHATWG, either (although their spec is still much more up-to-date).  Last
July, the SVG WG was asked if they'd take over responsibility.  The request
was turned down at that time, partly because we didn't want to distract
from SVG 2, but partly also because there wasn't room in the SVG charter
for non-markup-based graphics specifications. [2]

I would love to see better coordination between SVG and canvas.  Authors
and user agents both benefit if rendering details are consistent between
the two syntaxes.  The accessibility work would also benefit from greater
coordination.  But it depends on whether there will actually be people &
organizations able to devote resources to the work.

Of course, since this charter extension is only for 1 year, any decision
now is not final.  But I thought I would bring it up so that people who
will be at TPAC can discuss with colleagues there.

[1]: https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/svg-2016.html
[2]: https://www.w3.org/2015/07/16-svg-minutes.html#item01