DRAFT W3C Web & AI Interest Group Charter

Note: This draft charter is currently in the Evaluation stage and does not yet have a homepage, github, mailing list, etc. The missing information of the draft charter will be added after approval.

The mission of the Web & AI Interest Group is to provide a forum to explore and discuss how emerging AI-related technologies are impacting and intersecting with Web technologies and consider how the community could collaborate to shape these evolutions for the benefit of web users.

Join the Web and AI Interest Group.

This proposed charter is available on GitHub. Feel free to raise issues.

Charter Status See the group status page and detailed change history.
Start date [dd monthname yyyy] (date of the "Call for Participation", when the charter is approved)
End date [dd monthname yyyy] (Start date + 2 years)
Chairs [chair name] (affiliation)
Team Contacts [Roy] (0.1 FTE)
Meeting Schedule Teleconferences: topic-specific calls may be held or something else
Face-to-face: we will meet during the W3C's annual Technical Plenary week; additional face-to-face meetings may be scheduled by consent of the participants, usually no more than 3 per year.

Motivation and Background

The Web & AI Interest Group aims to analyze the broad and evolving impact of AI systems on the Web, and to examine the potential role of Web standardization in shaping and managing that impact. The group will explore the intersections between AI and the Web, considering their ethical, societal, and technical implications, and identifying opportunities for coordination across the W3C groups. For additional context and background, see the AI and the Web Impact report.

Scope

The group may engage in the following activities:

Deliverables

Updated document status is available on the group publication status page. The Interest Group may consider contributing or (in agreement with their authors) adopting the following documents:

Success Criteria

Reports published by the IG inform strategic conversations within W3C, leading to visible activities such as new Community Groups, improvements or greater consensus around draft Working Group charters, W3C Workshops, AC meeting agenda items, TPAC breakout sessions, structured email discussions within the broader Membership, and productive liaisons.

Coordination

For all deliverables, this Interest Group will seek horizontal review for accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security with the relevant Working and Interest Groups, and with the TAG.

This Interest Group should collaborate with all the groups developing proposals and specifications to coordinate on AI-related technologies trends.

W3C Groups

Web Machine Learning Working Group
collaborate on WebNN, Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning.
Web Machine Learning Community Group
coordinate on Web AI APIs.
AI Agent Protocol Community Group
coordinate on protocol standardization and contribute deployment scenarios and privacy implications.
Autonomous Agents on the Web Community Group
coordinate on exploring multi-agent system (MAS) architectural, agent lifecycle management, delegation models, and governance primitives that support scalable, ethical AI agent deployment.
AI KR (Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Representation) Community Group
coordinate on aligning knowledge representation efforts with agents' reasoning abilities.
Web AI for Time Series Community Group
coordinate on various time series AI architectures and focusing on their efficient implementation in web environments.
And Other AI-related Groups.

External Organizations

IETF(Internet Engineering Task Force)
A number of IETF groups and proposals are providing foundations for integrating AI systems in the internet architecture.
ITU(International Telecommunication Union)
The ITU-T JCA-ML group maintains a roadmap of machine learning standardization that can be informed by and inform the work of the Interest Group.
IEEE SA - P3579
coordinate on standard for Artificial Intelligence Applied to Time Series

Participation

To be successful, this Interest Group is expected to have 6 or more active participants for its duration, including representatives from the key implementors of this specification, and active Editors and Test Leads for each specification. The Chairs, specification Editors, and Test Leads are expected to contribute half of a working day per week towards the Interest Group. There is no minimum requirement for other Participants.

The group encourages questions, comments and issues on its public mailing lists and document repositories, as described in Communication. The group also welcomes non-Members to make technical contributions for ongoing work, provided they agree to the terms of the W3C Patent Policy.

The Chairs should periodically look through the non-Members who have contributed to the Working Group or the associated Community Group and consider whether each one should be invited to participate as an Invited Expert. If a non-Member contributor would like to participate in meetings, they are encouraged to [update this link] apply to be an Invited Expert. The group also welcomes non-Members to contribute through its public communication channels..

Participants in the group are required (by the W3C Process) to follow the W3C Code of Conduct.

Communication

For this section, Github repo and mailing list didn't set up yet.

Technical discussions for this Interest Group are conducted in public: the meeting minutes from teleconference and face-to-face meetings will be archived for public review, and technical discussions and issue tracking will be conducted in a manner that can be both read and written to by the general public. Working Drafts and Editor's Drafts of specifications will be developed in public repositories and may permit direct public contribution requests. The meetings themselves are not open to public participation, however.

Information about the group (including details about deliverables, issues, actions, status, participants, and meetings) will be available from the [name] (Working|Interest) Group home page.

Most Web and AI Interest Group teleconferences will focus on discussion of particular specifications, and will be conducted on an as-needed basis.

This group primarily conducts its technical work pick one, or both, as appropriate: on the public mailing list public-[email-list]@w3.org (archive) or on GitHub issues. The public is invited to review, discuss and contribute to this work.

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.

Decision Policy

This group will seek to make decisions through consensus and due process, per the W3C Process Document (section 5.2.1, Consensus). Typically, an editor or other 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, GitHub issue or web-based survey), with a response period from one week, depending on the chair's evaluation of the group consensus on the issue. If no objections are raised 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.

This charter is written in accordance with the W3C Process Document (Section 5.2.3, Deciding by Vote) 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 licensing information.

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 3.4 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

Note:Display this table and update it when appropriate. Requirements for charter extension history are documented in the Charter Guidebook (section 4).

The following table lists details of all changes from the initial charter, per the W3C Process Document (section 4.3, Advisory Committee Review of a Charter):

Charter Period Start Date End Date Changes
Initial Charter [dd monthname yyyy] [dd monthname yyyy] none
Charter Extension [dd monthname yyyy] [dd monthname yyyy] none
Rechartered [dd monthname yyyy] [dd monthname yyyy]

[description of change to charter, with link to new deliverable item in charter] Note: use the class new for all new deliverables, for ease of recognition.

Change log

Changes to this document are documented in this section.