[DRAFT] Chinese Web Interest Group Charter

The Chinese Web Interest Group provides a forum for W3C members to enhance the participation in Web standards work from the Chinese Web community. The group will focus primarily on identifying requirements of high priority to the Chinese Web community, on helping the Chinese members to get familiar with the process of W3C standards activities, on discussion of technical ideas with the potential to be proposed to W3C, on standards testing and implementation, as well as corresponding standardization opportunities for W3C while assisting the participation and contribution from the Chinese Web community.

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Charter Status See the group status page and detailed change history.
End date 2024-12-30
Chairs Qing An (Alibaba), Yiling Gu (Baidu), Wanming Lin (Intel), Zitao Wang (Huawei)
Team Contact Fuqiao Xue (0.1 FTE), Xueyuan Jia (0.05 FTE)
Meeting Schedule Teleconferences: as-needed.
Face-to-face: group face-to-face meetings may be scheduled by consent of the participants, usually about 2 or 3 per year.

Background

The Chinese Web Interest Group is designed as a forum to enhance the participation in Web standards work from the Chinese Web community.

Scope

Topics and areas that are in-scope for the Interest Group include:

Out of scope

The technical development of standards is not in scope for the Interest Group. Technical discussions are expected to take place within the appropriate W3C groups if such a group exists or within a dedicated Community Group or Business Group when incubation is needed.

Deliverables

Non-normative documents may be created, such as use case and requirement documents, primer, or best practice documents to support web developers when designing applications.

The Interest Group may also make proposals to other W3C Groups with the assistance of the W3C Team Contact when there is evidence of sufficient Member interest in a work item.

Success Criteria

To achieve this, the Interest Group will organize regular conference calls to update members on progress of work items, and to invite other groups and organizations to present their work to Interest Group participants.

Coordination

W3C Groups

The Chinese Web IG:

Participation

To be successful, this Interest Group is expected to have representatives from a major portion of W3C members in China for its duration. Individuals who wish to actively participate but are not affiliated with a W3C Member Organization are encouraged to apply to participate as an Invited Expert. We encourage all W3C members who are interested in helping to enhance the participation from Chinese members to join this Interest Group.

The group encourages questions, comments and issues on its public mailing lists and document repositories, as described in Communication.

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

Communication

Informal coordination is done via the Interest Group's mailing lists, GitHub as well as other communication channels by consent of the participants. The Interest Group is a public forum; its mailing lists and archives are publicly accessible.

This group uses the public mailing list public-chinese-web@w3.org (archive) and GitHub.

The meeting minutes from teleconference and face-to-face meetings will be archived for public review as well, and technical discussions and issue tracking will be conducted in a manner that can be both read and written to by the general public. The meetings themselves are not open to public participation, however.

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.

The Interest Group conducts its conversations primarily in Chinese. Liaisons with other W3C Groups will be conducted in English.

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

Decision Policy

This group will seek to make decisions through consensus and due process, per the W3C Process Document (section 3.3). Typically, a 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 and/or web-based survey), with a response period from one week to 10 working days, depending on the chair's evaluation of the group consensus on the issue. If no objections are raised on the mailing list 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 or the Director.

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 W3C Patent Policy Implementation.

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 5.2 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.

Charter History

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 20 September 2018 30 September 2020
  • 2019-03: Added Anqi (Angel) Li as co-chair.
  • 2019-11: Qingqian Tao stepped down, Xing Peng appointed as co-chair.
  • 2020-06: Xing Peng stepped down, Yiling Gu appointed as co-chair.
Rechartered 13 October 2020 30 September 2022 Mentioned that the IG may create non-normative documents.
  • 2021-05-28: Zhiqiang Yu stepped down, Zitao Wang appointed as co-chair.
  • 2021-11-05: Anqi (Angel) Li stepped down, Qing An appointed as co-chair.
Charter extension 1 October 2022 30 December 2022 None.
Rechartered 30 December 2022 30 December 2024 None.