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TPAC 2009 Sponsor
Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, California, (Silicon Valley) USA
2 November - 6 November 2009
TPAC 2009: the Combined Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week brings together W3C Working and Interest Groups, the Advisory Board, the TAG and the Advisory Committee for an exciting week of coordinated work. The highlight of the week is the Plenary Day, Wednesday, 4 November, for all to attend.
Technical Plenary Day
4 November 2009
The Wednesday of the Technical Plenary Week offers a unique opportunity for our broad W3C Community (Working, Interest and Coordination Groups; Advisory Committee Representatives; Advisory Board; Technical Architecture Group; and Team) who have registered to gather in one room and discuss technical topics of broad interest to the attendees, and of significant importance to past, present and future of the World Wide Web Consortium. Discussion during this Technical Plenary day will not be considered Member confidential. Slides and minutes will be made public on the W3C Web site.
Agenda
The Program Committee is responsible for arranging the agenda for the Plenary meeting day. Chair for the day is Ralph Swick, W3C's COO.
| 08:00 to 08:45 |
Coffee, Tea, and
Ramp-Up
Description: Meet and greet, and time to set up your laptop, read mail, etc. |
|---|---|
| 08:45 to 08:50 |
Opening Remarks
by Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director |
| 08:50 to 10:00 |
Session
1: Decentralized Extensibility in
HTML5
Description: The HTML5 specification does not have a mechanism to allow decentralized parties to create their own languages, typically XML languages, and exchange them in HTML5 text/html serializations while avoiding name collisions. This would allow languages such as SVG, MathML, XForms, X3D, FBML and a host of others to be included. This session is organized as a debate, with the goal of informing the participants about the arguments around decentralized extensibility and, more specifically, around XML Namespaces as a means of providing it. We have asked two of the most prominent HTML Working Group participants concerned with this issue to present the issues involved. Noah Mendelsohn will introduce the topic by presenting the current situation. Moderator: Henry Thompson, W3C / U. of Edinburgh Participants: [slides]
with an introductory overview of the issues from Noah Mendelson, TAG Chair (IBM): Decentralized Extensibility & HTML5 [slides: ppt, odp, pdf] |
| 10:00 to 10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30 to 11:30 |
Session
2: Maintaining a Healthy Internet Ecosystem --
Challenges to an Open Internet
Infrastructure
Description: The goal of this panel is to provide a broader context to the open Internet of which Web activities are a part. The panel will focus on the development and management of the Internet for the common good. Representatives from key Internet standards and resource management organizations will discuss the challenges and opportunities in supporting the Internet's continued health, through open processes and actions in the global public interest. This helps inform the W3C, an important component of the Internet ecosystem, on important matters for continued growth. Moderator: Leslie Daigle, Internet Society [slides] Presenters: |
| 11:30 to 12:00 |
Session 3:
Lightning Talks (I)
Description: Presenters will provide strictly-monitored 5-minute talks (3 minutes presentation, 2 minutes discussion) on topics that range from interesting, informative, controversial or all of the above. The audience will have the opportunity to engage in a lightning q&a period following each presentation. Moderator: Marie-Claire Forgue, W3C Presenters and Topics:
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| 12:00 to 13:30 |
Lunch in the
California Ballroom, 1st floor (BOF Tables - sign-up sheets at
Registration Area) Birds-of-a-Feather Tables: Participants may add to provided sign-up sheets any topic they like for discussion at each lunch table, and all are welcome to sign-up to sit at a particular table where a discussion of interest is proposed to take place. We plan the following tables (at least):
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| 13:30 to 14:30 |
Session
4: Privacy on the Web of Applications --
Challenges and Opportunities
Description: How has the Web evolved, what does that mean for privacy, and what does that tell us about designing Web technologies? Moderator: Rigo Wenning, W3C Panelists:
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| 14:30 to 15:30 |
Session 5: Web Apps vs App. Stores Description: The goal of the panel is to look at the convergence and divergence between “Web applications in the browser” and downloadable applications (esp. ones built with Web technologies, e.g. widgets), in terms of: user experiences and expectation; security and policy; business models and monetization. Moderator: Robin Berjon, Device APIs and Policy WG Chair Panelists:
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| 15:30 to 16:00 |
Break |
| 16:00 to 17:15 |
Session
6: Future of the Social Web Description: Over the last few years, a considerable momentum emerged to "open the walled gardens" and build open standards to securely access and share social data, building social functionality into the Web itself. A host of new technologies, such as OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, PortableContacts, ActivityStreams, Semantic Web frameworks, Linked Open Data and more are now becoming widely deployed. What does this "Open Stack" mean to the Web? What does it offer social networking sites, large enterprises, and researchers? How does it integrate into Web architecture overall? Moderator: Daniel Appelquist, Vodafone Invited Speaker: Building Social Web Standards, by David Recordon (Facebook, Open Web Foundation) Panelists: |
| 17:15 to 17:45 |
Session 7:
Lightning Talks (II) Description: Presenters will provide strictly-monitored 5-minute talks (3 minutes presentation, 2 minutes discussion) on topics that range from interesting, informative, controversial or all of the above. The audience will have the opportunity to engage in a lightning q&a period following each presentation. Moderator: Henry S. Thompson, W3C / U. of Edinburgh Presenters and Topics:
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| 17:45 to 18:00 |
Wrap-Up and Adjourn |
An evening reception will close the day in the California Ballroom, on the 1st floor (19:00 - 22:00).
Program Committee
- Carl Cargill (Adobe)
- Michael Cooper (W3C)
- Leslie Daigle (ISOC)
- Ghislain du Chene (SFR)
- Marie-Claire Forgue (W3C)
- Takeshi Natsuno (Keio University)
- Kevin Novak (American Institute of Architects)
- Thomas Roessler (W3C)
- David Singer (Apple)
- Ralph Swick (W3C)