W3C Group Participation Home

W3C Group Participation

This page is a starting point for W3C Members, Invited Experts, and W3C staff who wish to join chartered W3C groups (see exceptions) or carry out some of the requirements of the W3C Patent Policy. See below for what you can do starting on this page.

A fact sheet with some statistics about the W3C Patent Policy is available, as well as a summary of disclosures and exclusions for all groups with patent policy licensing obligations. You may find answers to additional questions in the Patent Policy FAQ.

Groups

Working Groups (44)

  1. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (Status)
  2. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group (Status)
  3. Compound Document Formats Working Group (Status)
  4. Education and Outreach Working Group (Status)
  5. Efficient XML Interchange Working Group (Status)
  6. Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (Status)
  7. Forms Working Group (Status)
  8. GRDDL Working Group (Status)
  9. HTML Working Group (Status)
  10. Internationalization Core Working Group (Status)
  11. Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group (Status)
  12. Math Working Group (Status)
  13. Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group (Status)
  14. Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group (Status)
  15. Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group (Status)
  16. Multimodal Interaction Working Group (Status)
  17. OWL Working Group (Status)
  18. Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group (Status)
  19. Protocols and Formats Working Group (Status)
  20. RDF Data Access Working Group (Status)
  21. Rule Interchange Format Working Group (Status)
  22. Semantic Web Deployment Working Group (Status)
  23. Service Modeling Language Working Group (Status)
  24. SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group (Status)
  25. SVG Working Group (Status)
  26. SYMM Working Group (Status)
  27. Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group (Status)
  28. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (Status)
  29. Voice Browser Working Group (Status)
  30. Web API Working Group (Status)
  31. Web Application Formats Working Group (Status)
  32. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (Status)
  33. Web Security Context Working Group (Status)
  34. Web Services Policy Working Group (Status)
  35. WebCGM Working Group (Status)
  36. XHTML2 Working Group (Status)
  37. XML Core Working Group (Status)
  38. XML Processing Model Working Group (Status)
  39. XML Protocol Working Group (Status)
  40. XML Query Working Group (Status)
  41. XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Working Group (Status)
  42. XML Schema Working Group (Status)
  43. XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group (Status)
  44. XSL Working Group (Status)

Interest Groups (2)

  1. Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (Status)
  2. SVG Interest Group (Status)

Incubator Groups (7)

  1. Common Web Language Incubator Group (Status)
  2. Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group (Status)
  3. Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group (Status)
  4. RDB2RDF Incubator Group (Status)
  5. Rich Web Application Backplane Incubator Group (Status)
  6. SWS Testbed Incubator Group (Status)
  7. Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group (Status)

Note: A small number of W3C Working and Interest Groups (Member-only) are not managed via this tool. These include Working Groups not yet under the W3C Patent Policy and some Interest Groups. For these groups, information about how to join should be available on each group home page.

What You Can Do Starting On This Page

For each W3C Group listed on this page, some or all of the following operations are available (depending on the type of group and its deliverables).

Join or Leave the Group
Only Advisory Committee Representatives, Invited Experts, and Team Representatives may join or leave a group. Note: Advisory Committee Representatives must join a group before nominating representatives.
Nominate/Change Participants in the Group
Only Advisory Committee Representatives may name new representatives in a group, or change representatives.
Disclose Patents or Exclude Claims
Anyone may disclose a patent related to specifications produced by the Group. Furthermore, Advisory Committee Representatives of participating Members may exclude patent claims. See the schedule of exclusion opportunities for all groups. To disclose a patent or exclude claims, you must have a W3C account (request a Member account, request a public account).
Provide Additional Licensing Information
Only Advisory Committee Representatives, Invited Experts and Team Representatives may provide additional licensing information (e.g., contact information) for the deliverables of a group that are covered by the W3C Patent Policy. For convenience, it is also possible to provide additional licensing information one time, for all groups and all deliverables covered by the W3C Patent Policy.

Note: This set of resources is referred to as "IPP" as the pages were originally designed for the "Implementation of the Patent Policy."

Team Administration of this Information

Team members can also have a group added to this list (and all associated pages created automatically). See also the administration pages and IPP todo list.

Note: All actions carried out through this system are reported by email to the relevant parties; copies are sent to w3c-archive@w3.org (Member-readable archive).

Developed and maintained by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (dom@w3.org).
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