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XML Core Working Group Charter

The mission of the XML Core Working Group, part of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity, is to maintain and develop as needed core XML specifications.

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End date 31 Jan 2011
Confidentiality Proceedings are public
Initial Chairs Paul Grosso, Norman Walsh
Initial Team Contacts
(FTE %: 12.5)
Henry Thompson, Liam Quin
Usual Meeting Schedule Telcons: Fortnightly
Ftf: 1 per year

Scope

The XML Core Working Group is chartered to consider comments on the following existing specifications:

The Working Group is responsible for updating errata documents and publishing new editions incorporating published errata when appropriate.

Deliverables

The Working Group expects to publish the following specifications as W3C Recommendations under the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy:

All other publications listed in this document are expected to be published under the 24 January 2002 CPP as amended by the W3C Patent Policy Transition Procedure.

The Working Group has current plans to:

Note that the development of new W3C Recommendations not listed in this document would require a new charter revision.

Other Deliverables

The XML Core Working Group is responsible for maintaining the test suites associated with the specifications listed in the Scope section and providing careful updates as warranted.

This WG handles core XML architectural issues and as such may deal from time to time with several other specifications beyond those specifically listed in the scope.

The XML Core Working Group had previously published C14N 1.1 which is now a deliverable of the XML Security WG. Due to patent policy commitments, any new edition of C14N 1.1 would need to be jointly developed by the XML Security WG and the XML Core WG. The XML Security WG is expected to do the development work, and the XML Core WG would review it before publication.

Milestones

Milestones
Specification FPWD LC CR PR PER Rec
Note: The group will document significant changes from this initial schedule on the group home page.
LEIRI WG Note Not Rec track, was published in November 2008
XML Base 1.0 2nd Ed January 2009
XLink 1.1 June 2009 November 2009
XML 1.0 6th Ed June 2009 October 2009
NS 1.0 3rd Ed June 2009 September 2009
XInclude 3rd Ed July 2009 October 2009

Timeline View Summary

Duration

The expiration date of this charter is 31 January 2011.

Dependencies

W3C Groups

XML Activity
The XML Core Working Group co-chairs participates in the XML Coordination Group to help track dependencies.
Internationalization Core Working Group
This Group is expected to provide last call review of deliverables of this Working Group.

Last call review happens via the XML Coordination Group and its liaisons.

External Groups

The XML Core Working Group needs to review and comment on work on the definition of the Internet Media type for XML (see RFC 3023).

Participation

To be successful, the XML Core Working Group is expected to have 6 or more active participants for its duration. Effective participation to XML Core Working Group is expected to consume 2-3 hours per week for each participant; 5-10 hours per week for editors during active editing periods. The XML Core Working Group will allocate also the necessary resources for building Test Suites for each specification.

Participants are reminded of the Good Standing requirements of the W3C Process.

Communication

This group primarily conducts its work on the publicly archived mailing list public-xml-core-wg@w3.org (archive).

Information about the group (deliverables, participants, face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, etc.) is available from the XML Core Working Group home page (member only).

Patent Policy

This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.

For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.

About this Charter

This charter for the XML Core Working Group has been created according to section 6.2 of the Process Document. In the event of a conflict between this document 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.


Henry Thompson, Staff Contact
Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead and alternate Team Contact

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