September 2022
This is part of our goal to improve inclusion at W3C.
"We all share responsibility for our work environment."
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A year after I joined as W3C CEO,
I described in one of my first AC
Meetings four strategic elements:
One way to truly
appreciate a strategy
is to see how the
resources are assigned
Sustainable Business Model | Core | Place for Standards | User | Global & Accessible |
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Enormously active Chinese Web IG.
Focus on understanding & bridging.
Important Chinese brands joined.
40+ Chinese Members, including 9 Full.
Hundreds of millions of MiniApps users
Standards ideas applied to other hybrid apps.
Comparatively, Japan has the most tight-knit partnership between Members and Team.
Handling of needs in: publishing, telecommunications, script support.
W3C Chapters in Latin America, the Persian Gulf, Australia, Southeast Asia, etc.
Community Groups | # of participants | Groups that are fed |
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WebAssembly | 1,451 | WebAssembly |
Web Platform Incubator | 885 | WebApps, HTML (WHATWG), WebPerf, … |
Credentials | 492 | DID, Verifiable Claims |
Privacy | 479 | TAG, many other groups |
Immersive Web | 300 | Immersive Web |
GPU on the Web | 267 | Web GPU |
Web Machine Learning | 120 | Web Machine Learning |
Publishing | 99 | EPUB3 and related Publishing@W3C groups |
W3C Process | 46 | W3C Advisory Board |
We have over 100 liaisons, simple or deep, to maximize our leverage, because the web technology stack touches the technologies of many organizations. Here are a selected few:
ISO | upstream our work as ISO publicly available standards |
WHATWG | 2 MoUs to work on HTML, DOM, Fetch, and other specs |
IETF | security, privacy, IoT, WebRTC, and many other areas |
IDPF | publishing on the web; until 2016 merger |
EMVCo | payments |
COVESA | automotive |
CTA | media & entertainment |
OGC | geospatial |
It is essential that part of our strategic focus be on continuous improvements in how we make standards. Recent key enhancements of the W3C Process:
2014 | Removed last call step |
2015 | Enshrined Horizontal Review |
2017 | STV voting |
2018 | CEPC added by reference |
2019 | Community Groups and Business Groups added by reference |
2020 | Living Standards adoption and Patent Policy update |
2021 | Registries, W3C Statements Track (including for the AB and TAG) |
W3C has held the line on Member dues increases these last fourteen years:
Member class | 2008 | 2022 | % change | 2022 in 2008 prices | % change |
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$1B or more | $68,500 | $77,000 | 12% | $51,000 | -26% |
$500M-$1B | $68,500 | $68,500 | 0 | $46,000 | -33% |
$50M-$500M | $68,500 | $25,000 | -63% | $17,000 | -75% |
$3M-$50M; non-profits | $7,900 | $7,900 | 0 | $5,300 | -33% |
0-3M (startups) | $7,900 | $2,250 | -72% | $1,500 | -81% |
Premise: Since the web serves the planet – that means that our community must look like the planet. But it doesn’t.
Please, send questions and comment by e-mail:
jeff@w3.org or
w3c-ac-forum@w3.org.
These are the CEO Overview slides for W3C's Advisory Committee Meeting at TPAC 2022.
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