Chinese Web Interest Group Charter
This charter has been replaced by a newer version.
The Chinese Web Interest Group provides a forum for W3C members to enhance the participation in Web standards work from the Chinese Web community. The group will focus primarily on identifying requirements of high priority to the Chinese Web community, on helping the Chinese members to get familiar with the process of W3C standards activities, on discussion of technical ideas with the potential to be proposed to W3C, on standards testing and implementation, as well as corresponding standardization opportunities for W3C while assisting the participation and contribution from the Chinese Web community.
| End date | 2022-12-30 |
|---|---|
| Charter extension | See Change History |
| Chairs | Qing An (Alibaba), Yiling Gu (Baidu), Wanming Lin (Intel), Zitao Wang (Huawei) |
| Team Contact | Fuqiao Xue (0.1 FTE), Xueyuan Jia (0.05 FTE) |
| Meeting Schedule |
Teleconferences: as-needed.
Face-to-face: group face-to-face meetings may be scheduled by consent of the participants, usually about 2 or 3 per year. |
Scope
The Chinese Web Interest Group is designed as a forum to enhance the participation in Web standards work from the Chinese Web community. Topics and areas that are in-scope for the Interest Group include:
- Identify requirements of high priority to the Chinese Web community and encourage the use cases input from the Chinese Web community
- Assist Chinese members to get familiar with the process, tools and other needed info to participate in W3C standards activities
- Discuss technical ideas with the potential to be proposed to W3C
- Join the testing and implementation efforts of W3C standards
- Identify and communicate standardization opportunities for W3C
- Organize local events, identify the needs of members, find a match with W3C's existing work, and establish liaison with relevant W3C groups, standards organizations in Chinese regions, regulatory agencies/bodies in Chinese regions, and Chinese Web developers
- Inclusion of stakeholders with diverse requirements and perspectives from the Chinese Web community to inform W3C work
Out of scope
The technical development of standards is not in scope for the Interest Group. Technical discussions are expected to take place within the appropriate W3C groups if such a group exists or within a dedicated Community Group or Business Group when incubation is needed.
Deliverables
Non-normative documents may be created, such as use case and requirement documents, primer, or best practice documents to support web developers when designing applications.
The Interest Group may also make proposals to other W3C Groups with the assistance of the W3C Team Contact when there is evidence of sufficient Member interest in a work item.
Success Criteria
- Participation via mailing list from people representing various stakeholder communities in China, including industry, academia, SDOs, government agencies, developers, regulators, and users
- Members of the Interest Group join relevant Working Groups and drive the development of work items
- Members of the Interest Group start or join related Community/Business Groups
- Constructive feedback on W3C deliverables posted for review on the Chinese Web Interest Group mailing list
- Engagement and coordination with other organizations in the Chinese Web community to promote adherence to W3C standards
To achieve this, the Interest Group will organize regular conference calls to update members on progress of work items, and to invite other groups and organizations to present their work to Interest Group participants.
Coordination
W3C Groups
The Chinese Web IG:
- tracks the work of and shares ideas with the Chinese Layout Task Force, among others. The Chinese Layout TF is part of the Internationalization Interest Group (i18n IG). The task force documents requirements for the layout and presentation of text in Chinese when they are used by Web standards and technologies.
- partners closely with the MiniApps Ecosystem Community Group to help facilitate the standardization of MiniApps in the Chinese Web community.
- works with the TAG to make sure the proposals discussed in the IG conforms to the principles of Web architecture.
- coordinates with the Web Applications Working Group to help facilitate the development of client-side web applications.
- works with the Web Platform Incubator Community Group to ensure proposals discussed in the IG leverages existing proposals in the WICG as much as possible.
- collaborates with the Media and Entertainment Interest Group on media-related technical discussions in the IG.
- cooperates with the Web of Things IG and Web of Things WG to discuss the architecture of Web of Things.
- discuss potential accessibility issues and opportunities with the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group, including early orientation to the Framework for Accessible Specification of Technology for ideas emerging from this Interest Group.
Participation
To be successful, this Interest Group is expected to have representatives from a major portion of W3C members in China for its duration. Individuals who wish to actively participate but are not affiliated with a W3C Member Organization are encouraged to apply to participate as an Invited Expert. We encourage all W3C members who are interested in helping to enhance the participation from Chinese members to join this Interest Group.
The group encourages questions, comments and issues on its public mailing lists and document repositories, as described in Communication.
Participants in the group are required (by the W3C Process) to follow the W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
Communication
Informal coordination is done via the Interest Group's mailing lists, GitHub as well as other communication channels by consent of the participants. The Interest Group is a public forum; its mailing lists and archives are publicly accessible.
This group uses the public mailing list public-chinese-web@w3.org (archive) and GitHub.
The meeting minutes from teleconference and face-to-face meetings will be archived for public review as well, and technical discussions and issue tracking will be conducted in a manner that can be both read and written to by the general public. The meetings themselves are not open to public participation, however.
The group may use a Member-confidential mailing list for administrative purposes and, at the discretion of the Chairs and members of the group, for member-only discussions in special cases when a participant requests such a discussion.
The Interest Group conducts its conversations primarily in Chinese. Liaisons with other W3C Groups will be conducted in English.
Information about the group (including details about deliverables, issues, actions, status, participants, and meetings) will be available from the Interest Group home page.
Decision Policy
This group will seek to make decisions through consensus and due process, per the W3C Process Document (section 3.3). Typically, a participant makes an initial proposal, which is then refined in discussion with members of the group and other reviewers, and consensus emerges with little formal voting being required.
However, if a decision is necessary for timely progress and consensus is not achieved after careful consideration of the range of views presented, the Chairs may call for a group vote, and record a decision along with any objections.
To afford asynchronous decisions and organizational deliberation, any resolution (including publication decisions) taken in a face-to-face meeting or teleconference will be considered provisional. A call for consensus (CfC) will be issued for all resolutions (for example, via email and/or web-based survey), with a response period from one week to 10 working days, depending on the chair's evaluation of the group consensus on the issue. If no objections are raised on the mailing list by the end of the response period, the resolution will be considered to have consensus as a resolution of the Interest Group.
All decisions made by the group should be considered resolved unless and until new information becomes available or unless reopened at the discretion of the Chairs or the Director.
This charter is written in accordance with the W3C Process Document (Section 3.4, Votes) and includes no voting procedures beyond what the Process Document requires.
Patent Disclosures
The Interest Group provides an opportunity to share perspectives on the topic addressed by this charter. 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. For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.
Licensing
This Interest Group will use the W3C Software and Document license for all its deliverables.
About this Charter
This charter has been created according to section 5.2 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.
Charter History
The following table lists details of all changes from the initial charter, per the W3C Process Document (section 5.2.3):
| Charter Period | Start Date | End Date | Changes |
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| Initial Charter | 20 September 2018 | 30 September 2020 |
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| Rechartered | 13 October 2020 | 30 September 2022 |
Mentioned that the IG may create non-normative documents.
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| Charter Extension | 1 October 2022 | 30 December 2022 |