Note: This Working Group ended successfully, and on schedule. The actual technical work to establish an internationally recognized standard for efficient interchange of XML is being done by the W3C Efficient XML Interchange Working Group.
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group is the public web page for the (now completed) XML Binary Characterization Working Group (there is also a member-only page with telephone numbers for conference calls, and other internal details).
This is part of the W3C XML Activity.
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group was created as a result of the Binary Interchange Workshop.
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group was tasked with gathering information about uses cases where the overhead of generating, parsing, transmitting, storing, or accessing XML-based data may be deemed too great for a particular application, characterizing the properties that XML provides as well as those that are required by the use cases, and establishing objective, shared measurements to help judge whether XML 1.x and alternate (binary) encodings provide the required properties.
The Binary Interchange Workshop report can be found at http://www.w3.org/2003/08/binary-interchange-workshop/Report.html.
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group operates according to this charter. You can get involved by joining the W3C.
The public mailing list for technical discussion with the Working Group is public-xml-binary@w3.org (Archives).
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group is closing on April 1st, 2005
(See the charter)
The XML Binary Characterization Working Group is chartered to produce several deliverables.
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