Hi,
W3C chartered a new HTML Working Group today.
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter
In recognition of the WHAT WG requirements gathering, design, testing,
and review efforts, and on the advice of various W3C member organizations,
the W3C HTML Working Group is chartered to "actively pursue convergence
with WHATWG, encouraging open participation within the bounds of the
W3C patent policy and available resources."
So please do consider participating.
Administration of the W3C patent policy does involve a bit of administrative
overhead; I hope you'll agree that it's worthwhile, in the interest of
the goal of
assuring that Recommendations produced under this policy
can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis.
Ian Hixie wrote a good summary of the steps for joining the Working Group.
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/009887.html
http://blog.whatwg.org/w3c-restarts-html-effort
I see that several people are several steps into that process. I hope I
can tend
to those presently. I'm traveling this week, so I hope you'll excuse a bit
of a delay.
Ian also notes that "Surprisingly, the W3C never actually contacted the
WHATWG during
the chartering process." Oops. I hope you'll excuse that too. Getting
this working
group chartered was a very involved process, and I suppose I dropped a
few balls
along the way. I hope not too many.
I look forward to working on HTML with you.
p.s. I am copying [EMAIL PROTECTED]; note that if you reply all, you'll
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--
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
