XML Coordination Group Charter
The mission of the XML Coordination Group, part of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity, is to provide a forum for coordination between the Working Groups of the XML Activity, and between the XML Activity and other parts of W3C, and between the XML Activity and other organizations.
| End date | 30 June 2008 |
|---|---|
| Confidentiality | Proceedings are Member-only |
| Initial Chairs | Michael Sperberg-McQueen |
| Initial Team Contacts
(FTE %: 15) |
Liam Quin |
| Usual Meeting Schedule | Telcons: Weekly
Ftf: No regular meetings, occasional ad-hoc as required |
Scope
The XML Coordination Group is responsible for:
- coordinating workflow between XML Activity Working Groups
- coordinating with other Coordination Groups
- watching out for dependencies between WGs
- recommending the creation and dissolution of WGs within its chartered scope (rare but essential)
- setting the master WG/IG/CG meeting schedule
- maintaining the public roadmap
- notifying the XML Plenary IG of changes they should be aware of
- maintaining liaison inside and outside the W3C — in particular, gathering and forwarding requests for additional requirements to the appropriate WG(s)
- forwarding requests for process changes originating in the IG towards the rest of W3C
- suggesting/proposing items relating to policy and architecture to the XML Plenary IG for its consideration
- suggesting/proposing items relating to architecture to the TAG for its consideration
- discussing technical questions as needed
- managing crises
- turning hard policy/architecture questions over to the IG
- liaising with W3C management when necessary
- dealing with aggrieved Member organizations when necessary
- coordination of press and media relations and speaking appearances for the Working Groups in the Activity
Deliverables
The XML Coordination Group itself has no required deliverables; those are produced by Working Groups. But the Coordination Group does maintain overviews and otherwise communicate the results of the Working Groups, and in conjunction with the XML Plenary Interest Group it has responsibility for providing overall technical guidance for the development of XML and related specifications.
Participation
The XML Coordination Group membership consists of
- the Coordination Group chair and W3C Team contacts
- the Chairs of the XML Activity Working Groups and Interest Groups (or their
delegates, if the Chair is not available); at the time of
writing, these were:
- Efficient XML Interchange Working Group
- XML Core Working Group
- XSL Working Group
- XML Schema Working Group
- XML Query Working Group
- XML Processing Model Working Group
- XML Schema Interest Group
- XML Plenary Interest Group
- Hypertext Coordination Group representative
The Group is also coordinating with the Semantic Web and Web Services Coordination Groups.
Other participants may be added, as decided by the Coordination Group and the prospective participant, based on the need for close liaison with other Working Groups in the XML Coordination Group.
The participants involvement required by this Group include weekly teleconfences, and mailing list.
Participation
To be successful, the Coordination Group is expected to have 6 or more active participants for its duration. Effective participation to the Coordination Group is expected to consume two hours per week for each participant.
Communication
This group primarily conducts its work on the Member-only mailing list w3c-xml-cg@w3.org (archive).
Information about the group (deliverables, participants, teleconferences, etc.) is available from the XML Coordination Group home page.
Patent Disclosures
W3C reminds Coordination Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. While the Coordination Group does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when Coordination Group participants review Recommendation-track specifications from Working Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do apply.
For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.
About this Charter
This charter for the XML Coordination Group has been created according to section 6.3 of the Process Document. Except as specified in this charter, the Working Group follows the Common Procedures for XML Working Groups (substituting "Coordination Group" for "Working Group" as needed). In the event of a conflict between this document, the common procedures, or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.
Please also see the previous charter for this group.
Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead
Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Chair
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