Technical Architecture Group (TAG)
W3C has created the TAG to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and
to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought
to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C. -- TAG charter
Earlier meetings are indexed below.
See also: W3C Events Calendar · Holidays and Festivals·
Face-to-face meetings:
Previous meetings are listed in the History section.
The TAG is chartered for an indefinite duration. Work items include:
The TAG has 9 members; 5 elected, 3 appointed, and 1 chair:
- Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) (Chair)
- Ashok Malhotra (Oracle)2
- Noah Mendelsohn (IBM)2
- David Orchard (BEA)1
- T. V. Raman (Google)3
- Jonathan Rees (Science Commons)2
- Henry Thompson (U. of Edinburgh)2
- Norm Walsh (Sun)1
- Stuart Williams (HP)1
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The TAG charter was added to W3C process July 2001. The events below chart our progress:
- February 2008
- teleconferences:
7 Feb, 14 Feb,
21 Feb
face-to-face meeting:
26th-28th February 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada (hosted by BEA).
- January 2008
- teleconferences:
10 Jan, 17 Jan,
31 Jan
- December 2007
- teleconferences:
6 Dec, 13 Dec
New Issue:
webApplicationState-60
- November 2007
- teleconferences:
1 Nov, 15 Nov,
29 Nov
face-to-face meeting:
TAG@TPAC 5th-10th November
2007, Cambridge, MA. Mon
am,
pm (with
HCLSIG), Tue
am,
pm(with WSC - WSC
minutes), Fri am
- October 2007
- teleconferences:
4 Oct, 11 Oct,
18 Oct,
25 Oct
- September 2007
- teleconferences: 6 Sep, 13 Sep, 27 Sep.
face-to-face meeting 17-19th September, University of Southampton, UK. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Updated Draft Finding: Versioning and Extensibility: Terminology,
Strategies. "Associating Resources with Namespaces"
Misc writings: "Review of XHTML
Modularization" relvant to XMLVersioning-41
- August 2007
- teleconferences: 30 Aug, 20 Aug, 13 Aug
New Issue scalabilityOfURIAccess-58. Updated Draft Finding: "Dereferencing HTTP URIs"
- July 2007
- teleconferences: 16 Jul, 9 Jul, 2 Jul
New Issue httpRedirections-57.
Updated Draft Finding: Versioning and Extensibility: Terminology,
Strategies, Versioning XML.
- June 2007
- teleconferences: 25 Jun, 18 Jun, 11 Jun.
New Draft Finding: "Dereferencing
HTTP URIs".
- May 2007
- teleconferences: 21 May, 14 May.
face-to-face meeting 30th May - 1 June, Mountain View, CA, USA. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday am.
Updated Draft Findings: "The
Self-Describing Web"
- April 2007
- teleconferences: 30 Apr, 23 Apr, 16 Apr, 2 Apr,
- March 2007
- teleconferences: 26 Mar 19 Mar
face-to-face meeting 6-7 March, Cambridge, MA, USA. Tuesday,
Wednedsay am and pm
- Feb 2007
- teleconferences: 5 Feb, 12 Feb,
26 Feb New Draft Findings: "The Importance of Self-Describing
Documents"
- Jan 2007
- teleconferences: 2 Jan, 9 Jan, 23 Jan, 30 Jan
New issue utf7Encoding-55
Approved TAG finding The use of Metadata in URIs
Misc writings: "The elaborated infoset: A proposal" relevant
to xmlFunctions-34.
- Dec 2006
- teleconference: 19 December
face-to-face meeting, 11-13 Dec., Cambridge, MA, USA
Issue metadataInURI-31 resolved
- Nov 2006
- teleconferences: 7 Nov, 14 Nov,
21 Nov
Approved TAG finding On Linking Alternative Representations To Enable
Discovery And Publishing
Issue genericResources-53 resolved
- Oct 2006
- summary,
teleconferences: 10
Oct, 17 Oct, 24 Oct, 31 Oct
face-to-face meeting, 4-5 Oct.,Vancouver, BC, Canada
New issue TagSoupIntegration-54
- Sep 2006
- teleconferences: 5 Sep, 19 Sep, 26 Sep.
- Aug 2006
- teleconferences: 8
Aug, 15 Aug, 29 Aug
- Jul 2006
- summary,
teleconferences: 18 Jul, 25 Jul
- Jun 2006
- teleconferences: 6 Jun, 27 Jun
face-to-face meeting, 12-14 Jun., Amherst, MA, USA
- May 2006
- teleconferences: 2 May, 9 May, 16 May, 30 May
New issue genericResources-53, new draft finding: On Linking Alternative Formats To Enable Discovery And Publishing
- Apr 2006
- summary, teleconferences: 4 Apr, 11 Apr,
18 Apr, 25 Apr
New issue passwordsInTheClear-52
Approved TAG finding Authoritative Metadata
Issue putMediaType-38 resolved, issue namespaceState-48
resolved
- Mar 2006
- teleconferences: 21 Mar, 28 Mar
TAG finding The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace published
as a W3C Working Draft
- 27 Feb & 3 Mar 2006
- face-to-face meeting, Mandelieu, France
- Feb 2006
- teleconferences: 7 Feb, 14
Feb, 21 Feb
Approved TAG finding: The Rule of Least Power
New draft finding: State in Web application design
- Jan 2006
- summary, teleconferences: 3 Jan, 10 Jan, 24
Jan, 31 Jan
Approved TAG finding: The Disposition of Names in an XML Namespace
- Dec 2005
- teleconferences: 13 Dec, 20 Dec
- 5-6 December 2005
- face-to-face meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Nov 2005
- teleconferences: 1 Nov, 8 Nov, 22 Nov
- Oct 2005
- summary, teleconferences: 4 Oct, 11 Oct, 18 Oct, 25 Oct
- 20-22 September 2005
- face-to-face meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Sep 2005
- teleconferences: 6 Sep, 13 Sep
- Aug 2005
- teleconferences: 23 Aug, 30 Aug
- Jul 2005
- teleconferences: 5 Jul, 12 Jul
- Jun 2005
- summary, teleconferences: 21 Jun, 28 Jun
Issue httpRange-14 resolved
- 14-16 June 2005
- face-to-face meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
- May 2005
- teleconferences: 3
May, 10 May, 31 May
- Apr 2005
- teleconferences: 5 Apr, 12 Apr, 19 Apr, 26 Apr
New issue standardizedFieldValues-51
- Mar 2005
- teleconferences: 8 Mar, 15 Mar, 22 Mar, 29 Mar
New issue URNsAndRegistries-50
- 28 February 2005
- face-to-face meeting, during the Tech Plenary 2005 in Boston, MA, USA
- Feb 2005
- summary, teleconferences: 7 Feb, 14 Feb, 22 Feb
New issues nameSpaceState-48, schemeProtocols-49
- Jan 2005
- teleconferences: 10 Jan, 24
Jan, 31 Jan
New issue endPointRefs-47
- Dec 2004
- 20 Dec, 13 Dec, 6 Dec
See also:
Tim Berners-Lee, Stuart Williams, co-chairs
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