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This was extracted (@ 2024-11-20 22:10) from a list of minutes which have been approved by the Board.
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W3C Relations

16 Oct 2024 [Andy Seaborne / Rich]

The annual W3C conference and all-groups meeting was held in September. I
attended remotely including a briefing on the planned direction of Community
Groups.

The process of going from Community Groups that produce material for
standardization will be improved in the areas of IP and copyright. This should
not affect ASF - it may be of note to ASF participants who also work for W3C
member organisations.

18 Sep 2024 [Andy Seaborne / Sander]

ASF is active in the RDF-Star (AKA RDF 1.2) Working Group with Apache Jena
implementing the in-progress proposals on an experimental basis.
The charter for this working group is being extended.

21 Aug 2024 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

17 Jul 2024 [Andy Seaborne / Justin]

Nothing to report this month.

19 Jun 2024 [Andy Seaborne / Justin]

Nothing to report this month.

15 May 2024 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

17 Apr 2024 [Andy Seaborne / Willem]

Niklas Merz (niklasmerz@) has joined the Federated Identity Community Group.

This is the first member from ASF; ASF has signed the community group agreement.

20 Mar 2024 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

21 Feb 2024 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

17 Jan 2024 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

20 Dec 2023 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

15 Nov 2023 [Andy Seaborne / Sharan]

Nothing to report this month.

18 Oct 2023 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

Nothing to report this month.

20 Sep 2023 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

16 Aug 2023 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

19 Jul 2023 [Andy Seaborne / Craig]

The W3C is holding a "Secure the Web Forward" Virtual Workshop. It is a joint
event with OpenSSF, OWASP and OpenJS. The first attempt with mostly in-person
event failed to attract enough interest.
https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9969

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henry story (bblfish@) has joined RDF surfaces community group.
ASF has agreed to the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement

21 Jun 2023 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

17 May 2023 [Andy Seaborne / Christofer]

Nothing to report this month.

19 Apr 2023 [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

ASF continued its membership of the renewed JSON-LD working group. ASF has two
participants: Steve Blackmon sblackmon@ and Adam Soroka ajs6f@.

ASF has signed the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement for the
WebAssembly Community Group and Timothy Chen @tnachen has joined.

22 Mar 2023 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

15 Feb 2023 [Andy Seaborne / Roman]

Nothing to report this month.

18 Jan 2023 [Andy Seaborne / Sander]

W3C Inc. has now started, taking over the staff and services that were
previously hosted by MIT.

21 Dec 2022 [Andy Seaborne / Christofer]

The Foundation as 3 participants in active working groups (which create W3C
standards) and 14 in community groups (which range from discussion forums to
groups aiming to seed a working group).

16 Nov 2022 [Andy Seaborne / Sharan]

Nothing to report this month.

19 Oct 2022 [Andy Seaborne / Sander]

The World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors has been announced:
https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9685

21 Sep 2022 [Andy Seaborne / Christofer]

Andy Seaborne (andy@) has joined two W3C working groups:

* RDF-star Working Group
* RDF Dataset Canonicalization and Hash Working Group

Apache Jena already provides the work fo the RDf-star community group which is
the main input into the working group. Only Working Groups produce W3C
Recommedntiosn (standards).

W3C Patent Policy applies for workgin group, in particular the section on
licensing obligations for Working Group Participants (section 3.1)

https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20200915/#sec-W3C-RF-license

17 Aug 2022 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

20 Jul 2022 [Andy Seaborne / Roman]

W3C is planning a change in how it is constituted becoming a public-interest
non-profit organization from January 2023. Currently, it is "hosted" by 3
universities and ERCIM, a research consortium.

https://www.w3.org/2022/06/pressrelease-w3c-le.html.en

ASF has supported the creation of the "RDF Dataset Canonicalization and Hash
Working Group"

ASF has voted in favor of the creation of the "RDF-star Working Group". Apache
Jena already provides an implementation of the community group work that led
to this working group proposal.

15 Jun 2022 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

18 May 2022 [Andy Seaborne / Rich]

Niklas Merz (niklasmerz@) and Bryan Ellis (erisu@) joined
the WebView Community Group.

These are the first people join the community group and ASF
has now signed the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement

20 Apr 2022 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

16 Mar 2022 [Andy Seaborne / Sander]

Jian Song (songjian@) has joined the Metaverse Interoperability Community
Group.

This is the first participant from ASF. The foundation has agreed to the W3C
Community Contributor License Agreement for the group.

16 Feb 2022 [Andy Seaborne / Justin]

W3C are considering relicensing many W3C Recommendations using the W3C
Software and Document License [1].

This is already the default license for work since about 2015. Many older
recommendations are under versions of the non-permissive W3C Document License
[2].

[1] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/copyright-software-and-document
[2] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/doc-license

19 Jan 2022 [Andy Seaborne / Roy]

Nothing to report this month.

15 Dec 2021 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

17 Nov 2021 [Andy Seaborne / Justin]

Nothing to report this month.

20 Oct 2021 [Andy Seaborne / Craig]

Nothing to report this month.

15 Sep 2021 [Andy Seaborne / Craig]

Currently, ASF has 12 people participating at W3C with a declared Apache
affiliation.

2 people are in the JSON-LD Working Group, which is evolving from active work
on the JSON-LD specification to maintaining the specifications.

The other area of participation is Community Groups (CG) shich range from
discussion communities through to generating material for future working
groups. Long-running Working Groups are no longer favoured and instead W3C
team expects substantive material to begin the WG phase. CGs form one way to
generate that material.

18 Aug 2021 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

21 Jul 2021 [Andy Seaborne / Sam]

Nothing to report this month.

16 Jun 2021 [Andy Seaborne / Craig]

Nothing to report this month.

19 May 2021 [Andy Seaborne / Craig]

Nothing to report this month.

21 Apr 2021 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

17 Mar 2021 [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

Nothing to report this month.

17 Feb 2021 [Andy Seaborne / Niclas]

Henry Story (bblfish@) has joined the "Notation (N3) Community Group".

This is our first member to join so ASF has signed the W3C Community
Contributor License Agreement for the CG.

20 Jan 2021 [Andy Seaborne / Sander]

Nothing to report this month.

16 Dec 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Niclas]

Nothing to report this month.

18 Nov 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Patricia]

W3C have updated their process (Process Document and Patent Policy). It aims
to smooth the working group flow and also to have specifications to evolve
after publication (optional choice for the Working Group). This includes bug
fixes and also new features, and will help real-world implementations
experience to affect a specification where currently the input window for
implementation experience is quite short.

21 Oct 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Sander]

Nothing to report his month.

16 Sep 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Patricia]

Nothing to report this month.

Response to comments:

ASF participation is primarily in the web data area of W3C where much of W3C's
"new work" nowadays happens in Community Groups (CG) which are open to
individuals and not requiring a W3C member organisations.

In addition, ASF has 2 people on the JSON-LD Working Group, which does require
individuals to come from a W3C member organisations.

I only have some knowledge of the web data area of W3C. A quarterly overview
of what is happening in W3C is a significant amount of work to track areas I
currently have no insight into.

Does W3C Relations need to be a direct report to the board or can it be folded
into another activity?

19 Aug 2020 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

15 Jul 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Sander]

Nothing to report this month.

----

For some reason, the comment from 2020-06-17, didn't get to me. Apologies for
the delayed response.

I would find it difficult to give a regular overview of W3C activity because
to track activity across W3C is quite an investment of time. I try to watch
for items that might be of particular interest to ASF but mainly the role has
been to ensure members and committers can contribute to W3C groups.

Most ASF participation is in community groups, which are discussion forums.
They do not need an organisation such as ASF to support joining, but the
announcing affiliation to ASF helps promote ASF. Many community groups are
dormant.

There is representation on one Working Group (JSON-LD Working Group).

17 Jun 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

Isaac Kamga (ikamga@) has joined the WebAuthN Adoption Community Group and ASF
has signed the Community Group Contributor Agreement.

20 May 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

Nothing to report this month.

15 Apr 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Roy]

W3C are proposing process changes:

1/ "Recommendations" become "Specifications".

2/ Working groups can choose to have "living documents" with errata and
additions added in-place after publication.

These steps make it a little easier for open source projects to get feedback
recognized in specifications.

Proposed changes in-place https://w3c.github.io/w3process/#major-changes-2019

The Patent Policy is revised in line with these changes, but this should
not affect ASF participation.

18 Mar 2020 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

19 Feb 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Dave]

Andy Seaborne (andy@) and Steve Blackmon (sblackmon@) have joined the W3C
Bridging GraphQL and RDF Community Group.

ASF has signed the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement for this
Community Group.

15 Jan 2020 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

Nothing to report this month.

18 Dec 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Ted]

Nothing to report this month.

20 Nov 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Roman]

Nothing to report this month.

16 Oct 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Dave]

Nothing to report this month.

"""
Is there a file/page/database/beer mat where we collate the
 information about who is on what committee?
"""

The W3C managed list isn't publicly accessible.

I sent a current list to the w3c@a.o mailing list.

18 Sep 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Danny]

Andy Seaborne(andy@) has joined the SHACL Community Group. This is a follow-on
group to the RDF Data Shapes Working Group.

As this is the first ASF member to join, ASF has signed the W3C Community
Contributor License Agreement and acknowledged the W3C Code of Ethics and
Professional Conduct.

21 Aug 2019 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

17 Jul 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Rich]

Nothing to report this month.

19 Jun 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Ted]

Nothing specific to report this month.

15 May 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Joan]

Aaron Coburn (acoburn@) has moved his individual account to affiliation ASF
and joined as ASF:

SPARQL 1.2 Community Group
Solid Community Group
LDP Next Community Group
RDF JavaScript Libraries Community Group

No new CG agreements for ASF were necessary.

17 Apr 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Craig]

Andy Seaborne (andy@), Rob Vesse (rveese@) and Adam Soroka (ajs6f@) have
joined the W3C SPARQL 1.2 Community Group.

ASF has agreed to the terms of the W3C Community and Business Group Process
and to abide by the terms and spirit of the Code of Ethics and Professional
Conduct.

Henry Story (bblfish@) has joined the Solid Community Group. ASF was already
participating.

20 Mar 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Isabel]

Nothing to report this month.

20 Feb 2019 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

16 Jan 2019 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

Nothing to report this month.

19 Dec 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

Nothing to report this month.

21 Nov 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Roman]

Nothing to report this month.

17 Oct 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

Andy Seaborne (andy@) has joined the W3C Solid Community Group. As this is the
first ASF member to join, ASF has signed the W3C Community Contributor License
Agreement and acknowledged the W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Solid CG: "The Solid project aims to improve privacy and data ownership on the
Web through a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized
social applications. "

19 Sep 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Ted]

Nothing to report this month.

15 Aug 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Rich]

Steve Blackmon (sblackmon@) has join the JSON-LD WG.

The Foundation was already participating (Adam Soroka, ajs6f@) in this WG so
no further commitment to the W3C WG participation agreement was needed.

18 Jul 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

Adam Soroka (ajs6f@) has joined the "Art & Culture (Museums) On The Web"
Community Group.

The Foundation was already participating in this CG so no further commitment
to the W3C CG process was needed.

20 Jun 2018 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

16 May 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Isabel]

Nothing to report this month.

18 Apr 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Rich]

Nothing to report this month.

21 Mar 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Jim]

Nothing to report this month.

21 Feb 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

Andy Seaborne, andy@, has joined the "Veres One Community Group"
(a public discussion group for decentralized identifiers).

This is the first time ASF is represented and ASF has signed the community
group agreement.

17 Jan 2018 [Andy Seaborne / Jim]

Nothing to report this month.

20 Dec 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Rich]

W3C Advisory Board proposed making a public statement in support of Net
Neutrality.  Given the short notice, the W3C Team asked for any
objections, rather than a full discussion cycle.  They received 3 and
will not be making a public statement.

Bruno Kinoshita (kinow@) has joined the Art & Culture (Museums) On The Web
Community Group and the foundation has signed the W3C Community Contributor
License Agreement.

Stian Soiland-Reyes (stain@) has joined the Bioschemas for lifesciences
Community Group and the foundation has signed the W3C Community Contributor
License Agreement.

15 Nov 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

Nothing to report this month.

18 Oct 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

The appeal vote on Director's decision to pubish the EME standard passed
with votes split approximately 2:1 in favor.  ASF formally abstained
(with comments).  EME has been published.

Otherwise, nothing to report.

20 Sep 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

The appeal vote on Director's decision to pubish the EME standard has
run. Within ASF there was more discussion on board@. Combining that with
the earlier members@ discussions, I formaly abstained, with comments
wishing to see better protection for independent developers and security
researchers.

16 Aug 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Mark]

There was a request from EFF to appeal the directors decision to have
EME (Encrypted Media Extensions) in HTML proceed to REC status. In W3C
process, an appeal is heard if it passes an initial vote where 5% of
the member organisations vote in favour of hearing the appeal.

The Foundation voted to hear the appeal (discussion on members@).

The request for appeal passed comfortably.  The appeal is being held
over 16 August - 13 September and is a vote on the original directors
decision.  ASF support for hearing the appeal is not expressing a view in
W3C on the appeal itself.

19 Jul 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

Andy Seaborne (andy@) has joined the "Declarative Linked Data Apps" Community
Group. ASF has already joined this CG so no further commitments are made.

21 Jun 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Mark]

Nothing to report this month.

17 May 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

The review of the "Encrypted Media Extensions" recommendation concluded
with majority in favour of publication but a significant minority
objecting.

53 : Supports publication (some with suggested changes)
6  : Does not support publication, not a formal objection
30 : Formal objections

Nothing else to report.

19 Apr 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Phil]

The HTML Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification came up for
review as it moves to Proposed Recommendation, which is effectively the
last stage in the W3C Recomendation process.

This has been a very controversial specification. It has become a symbol
for much wider debate around DRM.  Both sides are still a long way
apart, at least in public.

The ASF review was the option:
"""
does not support publication as a W3C Recommendation for the reasons
cited in comments but is not raising a Formal Objection (your details
below).
"""

with comments asking W3C to make renewed efforts to find a compromise
between the various interests, especially for security researchers and
independent implementers.

15 Mar 2017 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

27 Feb 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

EME (Encrypted Media Extensions) has been a controversial area in W3C. It
provides a standard browser interface to DRM. The Advisory Committee
review late 2016 has 69 responses with 23 objections, and 46 in favour
of advancing the work to recommendation status.

The main concern is for protection of security and privacy researchers.
A proposal from the Electronic Freedom Foundation was a "covenant" which
required signatories to waive rights of US DMCA for circumvention of DRM
by anyone.

W3C have failed to find a compromise and have undertaken to publish
(March 2nd) guidelines to protect security and privacy researchers.
Initially this is voluntary with a further possibility of being a
requirement for joining future Working Groups.

 ----

Stian Soiland-Reyes has joined the WebID Community Group, Schema
Architypes Community Group, Schema.org Community Group and Permanent
Identifier Community Group.

His previous membership of these groups was through the the University
of Manchester, but the University is withdrawing from W3C membership.

18 Jan 2017 [Andy Seaborne / Mark]

Nothing to report this month.

21 Dec 2016 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

Nothing to report this month.

16 Nov 2016 [Andy Seaborne / Isabel]

Nothing to report this month.

19 Oct 2016 [Andy Seaborne / Isabel]

Nothing to report this month.

21 Sep 2016 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

17 Aug 2016 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

Nothing to report.

20 Jul 2016 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

Bruno Kinoshita (kinow@) has joined the "SPARQL Maintenance (EXISTS)"
Community Group and ASF has signed the community contributor agreement.

15 Jun 2016 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

No changes to W3C participation by ASF.

An open letter from the EFF to the W3C Advisory Committee regarding EME
(Encypted Media Extension) generated a lot of discussion. This included
resubmiting the proposal for a covenant to protect implementers and to
make it an exit condition for the EME work proceeding.

The outome so far is a propsal for an advisory "Technology and Policy
Interest Group" (TechPolig). Proceedings will be W3C-member-only. The
initial areas for TechPolig are Deep Linking, DMCA-like challenges and
Surveillance.

W3C background:
https://www.w3.org/2016/03/EME-factsheet

18 May 2016 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

Nothing to report this month.

20 Apr 2016 [Andy Seaborne / Isabel]

Noting to report for this month or last month.

16 Mar 2016 [Andy Seaborne]

A report was expected, but not received

17 Feb 2016 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

Nothing to report this month.

20 Jan 2016 [Andy Seaborne / David]

In December, there was a charter extension request for the HTML Media
Extensions Working Group; a significant part of the extension is work on
Encrypted Media Extensions.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation canvased support for a formal objection
with charter modifications requiring all participants agree to conditions
that allow security researchers (and others) to circumvent technology for
protecting copyright.

The Foundation is not represented on the ongoing working group.

The ASF response to the charter extension expressed support for the
principle of free security research and open source implementation, but did
not support the formal objection nor the mechanism proposed.


Sergio Fernández has joined The Tourism Structured Web Data Community
Group. This is the first time ASF is represented so ASF has signed the
community group agreement.

Andy Seaborne has joined the CSV on the Web Community Group. This is the
first time ASF is represented so ASF has signed the community group
agreement.

16 Dec 2015 [Andy Seaborne / David]

Nothing to report this month.

18 Nov 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

Nothing to report.

21 Oct 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Rich]

Henry Story (bblfish@) has joined the Credentials Community Group.
This is the first member of the group for ASF, so the foundation
agrees to the standard community group conditions.

16 Sep 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

Andy Seaborne (andy@) has joined the "RDF Test Suite Curation Community
Group".  This is the first member of the group for ASF, so the foundation
agrees to the standard community group conditions.

19 Aug 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

Henry Story (bblfish@) has resigned from the Social Web WG.
The Foundation is still represented by Matt Franklin (mfranklin@).

Sergio Fernández (wikier@) has joined the LDP Next Community Group.
The Foundation has signed up to the terms and conditions of the CG.

15 Jul 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Jim]

ASF has joined the "Data on the Web Best Practices" and "Spatial Data on
the Web" working groups.  ASF is represented by Lewis John McGibbney
(lewismc@) on both WGs.  Lewis was already active previously representing
NASA but NASA are withdrawing from W3C Membership.

17 Jun 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

W3C has adopted a new Software and Document License.  This updates the
the W3C Software License to cover documentation. This new License
can be used for material produced by W3C groups, including community
groups, and also for relicensing of unfinished specs.

This is not the license for published specifications.

20 May 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Greg]

Matt Franklin (mfranklin@) has joined the Social Web Working Group.
The Foundation is already represented by Henry Story.

Henry Story (bblfish@) has joined the Social Interest Group, with the
Foundation signing up to the Interest Group as this is the first
representative.

Sergio Fernández (wikier@) has joined the Schema.org Community Group,
with the Foundation signing up to the Interest Group as this is the first
representative.

22 Apr 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

Nothing to report this month.

18 Mar 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Sam]

Nothing to report.

18 Feb 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Ross]

Nothing to report.

21 Jan 2015 [Andy Seaborne / Ross]

Joined Antonio Perez Morales (adperezmorales@, a committer on Apache
Stanbol) to RDF Data Shapes Working Group.  This is the first Apache rep on
the WG.

17 Dec 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

There is an election for participation (by individuals) in the W3C
Technical Architecture Group.  Voting closes end 2015-01-08.

19 Nov 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

HTML5 has been published as a REC.

Nothing to report this month that is directly relevant to the Foundation.

15 Oct 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Sam]

W3C continues to discuss a "webizen" programme to allow individuals
to have a formal stake in W3C.  There is a general sense that
"something" would be a good idea, there are different, changing details.

It does not affect the Foundation directly. It might be interesting to some
committers eventually.

17 Sep 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Ross]

ASF voting in the W3C TAG election caused a discussion about what
membership of W3C brings, and whether to the foundation and/or an
individual committer.  W3C members are organisations, not individuals, and
some roles at W3C are explicitly for organisation representation.

20 Aug 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

Henry Story (bblfish@) nominated to Social Web Working Group.
Sam Ruby has been nominated by IBM for the upcoming TAG election.

16 Jul 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

W3C is discussing the idea of extending the participation roles to include
"Webizen". A "Webizen" would be an individual (or group); they would not
have the full rights of W3C membership.  Discussions are at a very early
stage.

For ASF, nothing proposed so far would affect ASF current membership of
W3C.

18 Jun 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

Nothing to report this month.

21 May 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Shane]

Nothing to report this month.

16 Apr 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Jim]

Nothing to report this month.

19 Mar 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Doug]

Nothing to report.

19 Feb 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

Nothing to report this month.

15 Jan 2014 [Andy Seaborne / Jim]

Andy Seaborne has joined the "CSV on the Web Working Group".

Currently, there are 13 ASF members with W3C accounts.

18 Dec 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Sam]

Nothing to report this month.

20 Nov 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Roy]

ASF is no longer represented on:

* Patents and Standards Interest Group
* Push API Patent Advisory Group

(ASF was also represented on the Widgets Patent Advisory Group - this PAG
is now closed.)

16 Oct 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Sam]

Henry Story has joined the RDF JavaScript Libraries Community Group.
Andy Seaborne has joined the Property Graphs Model and API Community Group.

18 Sep 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Chris]

Rob Vesse and Stephan Allen have joined the RDF Stream Processing CG.

21 Aug 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Roy]

W3C are discussing a proposal to make clear the licensing to permit
non-specification derivative works from content in W3C recommendations.

17 Jul 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Jim]

W3C are revising their membership fees. Thanks to Larry Rosen, W3C have
confirmed that the current arrangement for the foundations membership
remains unchanged.

19 Jun 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Doug]

Lawrence Rosen has joined the Push API Patent Advisory Group.

The W3C election for the Advisory Board was contested - 12 candidates
for 4 places.  This also highlighted some work going to streamline W3C
standard process in the later stages.

One area that is currently a center for debate is the experiment in
licensing for use with HTML5 extensions.  The experiment is to use
a W3C Open Document License (c.f. CC-BY) which allows derived works.

15 May 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Bertrand]

The W3C Advisory Board election process has started.  There are 12
candidates for 4 places.

Nothing to report this month on ASF related activity.

17 Apr 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Jim]

The SPARQL Working Group, in which ASF participated, has closed.
The implementation reports included a report from Apache Jena.

20 Mar 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Doug]

Nothing to report this month.

20 Feb 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Sam]

ASF has made the W3C community group commitments on IP and copyright
so that Sergio Fernández can join the Open Data Spain Community Group.

16 Jan 2013 [Andy Seaborne / Rich]

Sergio Fernández is a committer on Incubator project Marmotta.
He is not employed by a W3C member company.
o
He has joined the Linked Data Platform (LDP-WG) and rejoined
the ReadWriteWeb (RWW) and WebId community groups under
ASF affiliation.

19 Dec 2012 [Andy Seaborne / Roy]

4 seats on the Technical Architecture Group are up for election; I am
not intending to express an opinion.

No changes in W3C participation this month.

21 Nov 2012 [Andy Seaborne / Doug]

Nothing to report this month.

17 Oct 2012 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

Henry Story has joined the
"Federated Social Web Community Group".

Andy Seaborne has resigned from the
"Networked Data Community Group".

19 Sep 2012 [Andy Seaborne / Jim]

With the successful publication of reports, Lawrence Rosen has left

XML Security PAG
Touch Events PAG

15 Aug 2012 [Andy Seaborne / Rich]

Nothing to report this month.

25 Jul 2012 [Andy Seaborne / Brett]

Andy Seaborne took over from Sam Ruby as VP of W3C Relations.

Henry Story joined the Linked Data Platform Working Group.

20 Jun 2012

Change the Apache Vice President of W3C Relations

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Sam Ruby to the
 office of Vice President of W3C Relations, and

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Sam
 Ruby from the office of Vice President, W3C Relations, and

 WHEREAS, Sam Ruby has recommended Andy Seaborne as the successor to
 the post;

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Andy Seaborne be and hereby is
 appointed to the office of Vice President, W3C Relations, to serve in
 accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors
 and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement,
 removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7G, Change the Apache Vice President of W3C
 Relations, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors
 present.

20 Jun 2012 [Sam Ruby]

Andy Seaborne and Henry Story joined the Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working
Group.

There is a resolution later in the agenda to change the VP of W3C Relations
from Sam Ruby to Andy Seaborne.

16 May 2012 [Sam Ruby]

Nothing to report this month (in particular, nobody joined or left a Working
or Community group on behalf of the ASF).

18 Apr 2012 [Sam Ruby]

Henry Story has joined the Philosophy of the Web Community Group
Larry Rosen has left the Web Applications Working Group
Jeremias Märki has joined the Print and Page Layout Community Group

21 Mar 2012 [Sam Ruby]

Jeremias Märki joined the Print and Page Layout Community Group.
Larry Rosen left the HTML5 working group (he still participates in the PSIG).

15 Feb 2012 [Sam Ruby]

Henry Story has joined the WebID and Unhosted Web Community Groups
Larry Rosen has joined the Touch Events Patent Advisory Group

24 Jan 2012 [Sam Ruby]

No changes this month.

21 Dec 2011 [Sam Ruby]

Andy Seaborne joined the Networked Data Community Group.
Ross Gardler joined the Native Web Apps Community Group.

16 Nov 2011 [Sam Ruby]

W3C TPAC F2F meeting was in Santa Clara the week before ApacheCon.
I attended the HTML WG portions.  Otherwise not much to report.

Larry mentioned upcoming work on the WARP PAG. Sam encouraged this to be brought up on the relevant Apache mailing list.

26 Oct 2011 [Sam Ruby]

Henry Story joined the Uncertainty, Trust and the Semantic Web
Community Group on behalf of the ASF.

21 Sep 2011 [Sam Ruby]

Henry Story joined the Read Write Web and Web Crypto API Community Groups.

Andy Seaborne rejoined the SPARQL-WG as the WG was rechartered.

17 Aug 2011 [Sam Ruby]

The SPARQL Working Group has rechartered, and I've rejoined the ASF as a
member of the Working Group and reconfirmed Andy Seaborne as our
representative.

TPAC this year is 31 October to 4 November in Santa Clara, and includes a PSIG
face to face on Monday and Tuesday:

http://www.w3.org/2011/11/TPAC/

There is a registration fee of 50 USD per day to defray a portion of the
meeting costs.  Registration will increase to 150 USD per day after 14 October
2011.  The ASF traditionally does not cover such costs.

Larry will attend the face-to-face at TPAC in Santa Clara if ASF pays the registration fees. Sam noted that this is not "traditionally" done since "traditionally" this implies a "pay to play" which Apache is fundamentally opposed to. In this case, it's $50 to cover lunch and a conference room, and Sam will authorize payment as a Legal Affairs expense.

20 Jul 2011 [Sam Ruby]

The ASF has joined the WebApps WG in order to enable Larry Rosen to
participate in the Widgets Patent Advisory Group.  See the Legal Affairs
status report for more background.

15 Jun 2011 [Sam Ruby]

Last call for HTML5 is proceeding, and the results of the Advisory Council
license survey have not been published.  Nothing major to report on any of the
other ASF activities at the W3C.

19 May 2011 [Sam Ruby]

[verbal report]

I attended the Advisory Council meeting, where the license for HTML5
was a hot issue.  This has yet to be resolved, and there is a survey
of AC members proceeding.

Additionally, we expect HTML5 to proceed to last call later this month.

20 Apr 2011 [Sam Ruby]

HTML WG continues to make progress towards Last Call.  Current
schedule:

 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0759.html

The PSIG has made public the licenses that they have been discussing:

 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0757.html

Mozilla has proposed an additional license option for consideration:

 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0263.html

There will be an W3C Advisory Council meeting May 15-17th.  I'll be
representing the ASF there.

16 Mar 2011 [Sam Ruby]

Henry Story joined the Federated Social Web Incubator Group in support of
Apache Incubator Clerezza.

The W3C Patents and Standards Interest Group (PSIG) has yet to come to
consensus on a single replacement license.  Discussing such openly and with
the HTML WG prior to proceeding to an Advisory Council (AC) survey and then to
a Director's decision was at one time controversial, but this appears to be on
its way to being resolved.  A key part of resolving this was Larry's
willingness to join the HTML WG where he presented his preferred choice (known
as option 3).  Two other options have yet to be so presented.

16 Feb 2011 [Sam Ruby]

Henry Story is now participating on behalf of the ASF on the WebID Incubator
Group.  Henry is the Chair of this W3C incubator group.  Apache Incubator
Clerezza implements WebID.

Andy Seaborne is now participating on behalf of the ASF on the RDF and SPARQL
Working Groups.  Andy is an editor of SPARQL.  Apache Incubator Jena
implements both specifications.

19 Jan 2011 [Sam Ruby]

The ASF has joined as an Initiating member the WebID Incubator.  Henry Story
is representing the ASF, and has been named as (one of) the initial chair(s).

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/charter

Apache Incubator Clerezza is an implementation of WebID.

The PSIG continues to deliberate privately on the topic of the HTML5 spec
license.  Saturday is the deadline for escalating bugs for Last Call
consideration, with the plan being to get HTML5 to Last Call in May.

15 Dec 2010 [Sam Ruby]

The ASF joined the WebID Incubator Group at the W3C.  WebID is related to the
Apache Clerezza incubator project: http://incubator.apache.org/clerezza/

The HTML5 licensing issues remain unresolved.  Progress is being made to taking
the spec to last call, with a target of May 22nd.

17 Nov 2010 [Sam Ruby]

No issues requiring board attention.

TPAC in Lyon, France came and went without any change in status of the
proposal to offer the HTML5 specification under a more liberal license.

HTML5 continues to progress towards a Last Call in May of 2011.

20 Oct 2010 [Sam Ruby]

No board level issues.  In fact, no change from last month's report.

Concurrent with ApacheCon will be the W3C TPAC conference.  My plans are
to attend ApacheCon.

22 Sep 2010 [Sam Ruby]

No board level issues.

The W3C is still contemplating the next steps on the proposed new
W3C license.

The HTML WG has proposed a schedule for getting to an (initial) last call:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Sep/0074.html

18 Aug 2010 [Sam Ruby]

No board level issues.

The FSF has rejected the proposed W3C license for HTML as not being GPL
compatible.

The HTML5 WG is building a backlog of bug reports, issues.

Approved by general consent.

21 Jul 2010 [Sam Ruby]

Not much to report.  The differences between the WHATWG and W3C drafts
continue to grow, but to date none of the differences that relate to HTML5 are
normative or substantive.  The WHATWG draft does contain content that is not
present in the W3C draft - some of it is content that may be considered in
future versions of HTML, others of which have been rejected by the W3C WG.
There is no clear marking as to which is which.

The W3C still has not settled on a license for the HTML5 specification.  The
current holdup is awaiting confirmation from the FSF that the license selected
is GPL compatible.

Of course, there are other working groups in the W3C, just none that I am
aware of people participating in an ASF capacity.

16 Jun 2010 [Sam Ruby]

Verbal report: no board level issues. The W3C continues to labor towards producing a new license for HTML5.

19 May 2010 [Sam Ruby]

Work is ongoing to come up with a HTML specification license to permit reuse
of the spec text in both proprietary and open source code bases.  The W3C is
actively trying to prevent fragmentation of the standard.  Not clear if the
ASF should be taking a larger position.  My take: these changes are not
addressing any real need; those that have indicated a desire to reuse the
spec text are the ones whose needs are satisfied by the WHATWG copy of the
spec.  The real issue, namely the WHATWG/W3C split is not being addressed.

21 Apr 2010 [Sam Ruby]

Verbal report.

AC meeting was held this month in Boston. Only item of interest to the ASF is work ongoing to produced a HTML spec license that permits reuse of spec text inside of software.

17 Mar 2010 [Sam Ruby]

Voted YES on a poll to allow the HTML5 specification to be released by the W3C
under a more liberal license.  There are two parts to this: the basic belief
that execution and community, not licensing, should motivate contributions;
and the fact that there are two copies of substantially the same spec (the
other published by the WHATWG), and only affect that restricting licensing on
one of those copies would be to make that copy less useful.

Additionally, the Apache License, Version 2.0 is among the licenses being
considered, and I indicated that the ASF would be in support of such a plan.

The AC meeting is on the 29th and 30th.  I plan to attend and represent the
ASF.  The HTML5 license issue is likely to be a hot topic.

General discussion on licensing, and the relative roles of the WHATWG and the W3C.

17 Feb 2010 [Sam Ruby]

The W3C is soliciting input on allowing more permissive licenses for specs
such as HTML, and I would be interested in people's opinion on the subject.
Larry has been participating in this discussion and has recommended two
licenses for consideration, including the Apache License, Version 2.0.

The next AC meeting is in Cambridge during the fourth week of March.  I plan
to be in attendance.

20 Jan 2010 [Sam Ruby]

Larry is now a member of the W3C Patents and Standards Interest Group, and
has participated in calls.  Among the current topics being discussed is the
request by the HTML WG for a more liberal license for HTML5 standard (i.e.,
the document itself).  This will likely result in the W3C soliciting opinions
from the Advisory Council representatives.

Sam clarified that the current level of participation in the W3C consists of Sam in the AC and Larry in the PSIG. Sam also described the process by which the AC rep nominates participants to W3C activities.

16 Dec 2009

Appoint a Vice President of W3C Relations

 WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
 interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
 purpose to appoint an officer responsible as the W3C Liaison,
 including but not limited to serving as the W3C Advisory
 Committee representative for the ASF.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the office of "Vice President, W3C
 Relations" be and hereby created, the person holding such office to
 serve at the direction of the Board of Directors, and to have primary
 responsibility for interfacing with the W3C; and be it further

 RESOLVED, that Sam Ruby be and hereby is appointed to the office of
 Vice President, W3C Relations, to serve in accordance with and subject
 to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the
 Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or
 disqualification, or until a successor is appointed.

 Special Order 7C, Appoint a Vice President of W3C Relations,
 was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.

16 Dec 2009 [Jim Jagielski]

[Prepared by Sam Ruby]

Starting to organize a set of people interested in participating in W3C
activities on the ASF behalf; at the present time we have Larry Rosen, Glen
Daniels, Rahul Akolkar, and myself expressing interest.  I encourage others
who are interested to join the members-only w3c@apache.org mailing list.

As I am working closely with the W3C staff anyway, I am willing to step
forward and assume the role of VP, W3C for the ASF as well as W3C Advisory
Committee Representative for the ASF.  I don't see this as being a time
concern (activity is low, and this would enable me to work direct vs through
an intermediary).  I would also be quite willing to hand this off at any point
in the future if somebody else has the interest and cycles to pursue it.  A
board resolution has been created on this topic.

Only "real" business this month: forwarded a request for contacts regarding
developer outreach to the PRC list (as I didn't find a separate list for
Marketing and Publicity).

Roy suggested that the title be "VP, W3C Relations", which met with general approval.

18 Nov 2009 [Jim Jagielski]

[initial, draft, report provided by Sam Ruby]
Sam Ruby attended the W3C AC meeting in Santa Clara on the ASF's behalf.  Not
much discussed that can be publicly minuted or is of direct concern to the
ASF's business; in general much of the discussion dealt with attempting to
find ways for the W3C to improve the value it provides to members, and to make
people aware of things like the new look and feel to the W3C website.

A new (and member confidential) w3c@apache.org mailing list has been set
up with the ASF to allow members to coordinate ASF participation in the W3C.
W3C AC notifications are automatically being forwarded to this mailing list.

Larry Rosen has joined the W3C Patents and Standards Interest Group,
representing the ASF.  He's exploring the use of OWFa as a potential solution
to the use cases provided by the HTML WG:
 http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/actions/29
 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Feb/0388.html

Jim has indicated a desire to step down as the W3C AC representative for the
ASF, and discussion has begun on a replacement.

Roy would prefer that Larry discuss the OWFa license with the W3C on behalf of the OWF and not as the ASF rep. Otherwise, not an immediate concern for the ASF.

21 Oct 2009 [Jim Jagielski]

Nothing much to report. The W3C f2f is happening in parallel with
ACUS, and due to the conflict, I've asked Sam Ruby, who will be
attending, to represent the ASF for us; he's agreed.

W3C "members" mailings are forwarded to the ASF members@ list
(with the [W3C] Subj. prefix)... there was a suggestion to create
a mailing list for just these Emails, but I haven't done anything
with that yet.

23 Sep 2009 [Jim Jagielski]

The representative role is, as I see it, a fairly passive one. It is
to monitor what is going on within the W3C, as it would impact the
ASF, provide a single point of contact between the W3C and the ASF and
to provide some opportunities for the ASF and ASF members to coordinate
with W3C activities.

The link to the W3C public newsletter can be found here:

 http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20090907

Regarding member activities, the current "main event" is the upcoming
"Advisory Committee and Technical Plenary" which conflicts with ApacheCon.
I am hoping to take a day and attend, but that is most questionable at
this time.

Sam and Jim to connect offline to coordinate Apache participation at TPac