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The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group is part of the W3C Internationalization Activity.

Mission: Develop a set of elements and attributes that can be used with new DTDs/Schemas to support the internationalization and localization of documents; and provide best practice techniques for developers of DTDs/Schemas that show how to enable internationalization of their documents. For more details, see the Working Group Charter.

On February 13 2008, the Working Group has published the Best Practices for XML Internationalization Working Group Note!.

With this publication, the deliverables of the Working Group have been completed and published, and no further work remains to be done, except errata handling for the ITS 1.0 Recommendation. The planned Internationalization Tag Set Interest Group will start soon as a forum to foster a community of users of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS), by promoting its adoption, and gathering information on its further development.

For a list of articles and implementations see the Links page.

Meetings

Teleconferences

Every Wednesday at the following time, for about one hour:

• UTC/GMT: 14:00
• Seattle (PDT, GMT-7): 7:00
• Boulder, Denver (MDT, GMT-6): 8:00
• Rabat (GMT: 14:00)
• Dublin, London (GMT+0): 15:00
• Grenoble, Waldorf (CST, GMT+1): 16:00
• Noida, Kolkata (IST, GMT+5:30): 19:30
• Tokyo (JST, GMT+9): 23:00

Past teleconferences

• For minutes see the mail archive

Past face-to-face meetings

• 2007 - October 2nd to 4th, Prague, Czech Republic
  [Logistics] [Minutes: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3]
• 2007 - May 14th and 15th, Paris, France
  [Logistics] [Minutes: Day 1, Day 2]
• 2006 - September 6th to 8th, Boulder, USA
  [Logistics] [Minutes: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3]
• 2006 - April 18th to 20th, Oxford, England
  [Logistics] [Minutes: Day 1, Day 2, Day 2 (regular call), Day 3]
• 2006 - March 2nd and 3rd, Cannes, France
  [Logistics] [Minutes] Was part of the W3C Technical Plenary Week^MO.
• 2005 - December 6th to 8th, Didcot, England
  [Logistics] [Minutes]
• 2005 - September 19th to 21st, Sophia-Antipolis, France
  [Logistics] [Minutes]
• 2005 - April 5th, Berlin, Germany
  [Logistics] [Minutes]

Mailing lists

public-i18n-its@w3.org

• Purpose: Discussion by WG members of work on WG deliverables. Note: This list should NOT be used for any questions or discussions of a general nature - the www-international list is for that purpose.
• Access rights: Public access to archive. Write access only for work group participants and W3C members.
• To subscribe: Become a member of the ITS WG.
• Archives: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-its/ (public access).

member-i18n-its@w3.org

• Purpose: W3C member-only list dedicated to group administravia, such as scheduling face-to-face meetings, and for use if there is ever a need to discuss member-confidential topics.
• Access rights: Any W3C member can write, and read, and access the archive.
• To subscribe: Become a member of the ITS WG.
• Archives: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-i18n-its/ (Member-only access).

www-international@w3.org

• Purpose: Internationalization Interest Group mailing list. The WG uses this list to announce the publication of deliverables, to solicit reviews of deliverables prior to release, and for discussion of general topics or solicitation of feedback related to its work.
• Access rights: Public read and write access.
• To subscribe: send a mail to www-international-request@w3.org with subscribe as the subject.
• Archives: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/ (public access).