XML Core Working Group (original) (raw)

Scope
Deliverables and Duration
Dependencies
Participation
Communication
Patent Policy
About this Charter

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

End date	31 May 2015
Confidentiality	Proceedings are public
Initial Chairs	Paul Grosso, Norman Walsh
Initial Team Contacts (FTE %: 5)	Liam Quin
Usual Meeting Schedule	Telcons: Fortnightly Ftf: 1 per year (usually at the W3C TPAC event)

Deliverables

The Working Group has current plans to:

Publish a sixth edition of XML 1.0 as an Edited Recommendation, to include the changes for the LEIRI specification, at such time as IRI-bis is final.
Take the XInclude 1.1 draft to Recommedation
Take the XML Normalization to Recommedation (from the XML Security Working Group)

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

In addition, the XML Core Working Group is chartered to decide whether to develop a MicroXML Recommendation based on the work of the MicroXML Community Group. If it decides to go ahead with MicroXML work a W3C Advisory Committee Review would bee needed to confirm the necessary change to this charter.

Other Deliverables

The XML Core Working Group will maintain and/or develop test suites for each specification as needed.

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 will review it before publication.

Milestones

Milestones

Specification	FPWD	LC	CR	PR	PER
Note: The group will document significant changes from this initial schedule on the group home page.
XML 1.0 6th Edition	June 2014	October 2014
XInclude 1.1	N/A	[January 2013]	September 2013	December 2013	March 2014
XML Normalization	October 2013	December 2013	April 2014	February 2015	May 2016

Timeline View Summary

2013-10 XML 1.0 Sixth Edition to Edited Recommendation (depends on IRI-bis, whose schedule is unknown)
2014-03 XInclude 1.1 to Recommendation
2016-05 XML Normalization to Recommendation
The Working Group may take MicroXML to Recommendation; if so it is reasonable to expect a Last Call Working Draft in 2013 but further progress would depend on outside implementors and uptake.

The Working Group will also continue to maintain specifications and process errata.

Duration

The expiration date of this charter is 31 May 2015.

Dependencies

W3C Groups

XML Activity

The XML Core Working Group co-chairs participate in the XML Coordination Group to help track dependencies.

Internationalization Core Working Group

That Group is expected to provide last call review of deliverables of this Working Group.

XML Security Working Groupfor the joint work on Canonicalization.

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.

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.

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.

This charter was revised in Summer 2012 to permit work on a new version of XInclude.

The charter was renewed in 2013 and included mention of MicroXML.

Liam Quin, XML Activity Lead and Team Contact