Per section 6 Working Groups, Interest Groups, and Coordination Groups of the W3C Process, this charter, and any changes to it, take effect by way of an announcement to the W3C Membership via w3c-ac-members.Dan Connolly, W3C, Norman Walsh, Sun Microsystems, co-chairs,
The mission of this group is to review and discuss ongoing work in the area of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) and Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and to facilitate deployment of quality implementations by maintaining testing materials.
The scope of the URI Interest Group encompasses:
Consideration of this group extends over registered, proposed and potential URI schemes.
The Interest Group does not produce recommendation-track deliverables; its mailing list archives and test repository may serve as valuable community resources.
The expiration date of this charter is 28 February 2007.
The URI Interest Group review and discuss the use of URIs in W3C specifications. URI/IRIs are heavily used and discuss by the following W3C groups:
The URI Interest Group also reviews development of URI-related technology in W3C with other organizations:
The proceedings of this Interest Group are public.
The URI Interest Group exists primarily as an archived email forum. The chair may call occasional teleconferences or scheduled IRC chats, not more than twice per month (with the usual 7 days notice of the time, agenda 24 hours in advance, and minutes to follow within 2 days per W3C process for meetings).
The URI Interest Group does not meet face-to-face, though participants are encouraged to report on relevants such as IETF BOFs.
The URI Interest Group shall communicate among its participants using the
public mailing list uri@w3.org
(archive) or
public-iri@w3.org for issues related to IRIs. The Group will also maintain a
public homepage.
Membership of the URI Interest Group is open to the public; W3C Membership is not a prerequisite.
Membership is signified by subscribing to the mailing list,
uri@w3.org
or public-iri@w3.org
. One can subscribe
to the mailing lists by sending an email to uri-request@w3.org
or public-iri-request@w3.org
, respectively, with 'subscribe' in
the Subject. There is no time commitment for participation to this Interest
Group.
Note: the mailing lists uri@w3.org
and
public-iri@w3.org follow the rules of IETF applicable to mailing list usage
(section 8. NOTICES AND RECORD KEEPING, RFC2026).
The initial Chairs of this Group are Dan Connolly (W3C) and Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems).
The initial W3C Team Contact is Dan Connolly. This charter allocates 0.10 FTE of W3C Team resource for this Interest Group.
The URI Interest Group provides an opportunity to share perspectives on URI. W3C reminds Interest Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Interest Group does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when Interest Group participants review Recommendation-track specifications from Working Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do apply.