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By Andy Patrizio
April 1, 2006 — 
In an effort to spur on lesser or vertical projects, the World Wide Web Consortium has launched Incubator Activity, an initiative to encourage Web-related technologies that may not warrant a full-blown W3C Recommendation Track working group.

A W3C Recommendation Track requires a formal charter and then has to be approved by the full membership of the W3C, which can take several months just to get the process rolling, according to Steve Bratt, CEO of the W3C. An Incubator group can get started in a few weeks after submitting the charter and the endorsement of only three W3C members, he said.

Once the Incubator group (called an “XG,” as opposed to the “WG” working group designation) is started, the group runs itself and the process is the same as a working group, with the same requirement to be fair and open, said Bratt. The group then has all the usual benefits of a formal W3C working group, such as access to the W3C mailing lists, publications, teleconferencing facilities and the group’s Web site.

Bratt said the working group process works fine, but that something was needed for more low-end projects. “Imagine if the W3C just threw XML or SOAP and WSDL out there without testing? We’re all about building consensus for these foundation technologies,” he said.

Some projects may never get to a full recommendation track because they don’t need it, like vertical apps, and some may not make it simply because they don’t work out.

By the time a team is close to being done with an Incubator project, it can start the process of chartering a more formal working group, Bratt pointed out. “The day you publish your Incubator report, you could have a new working group start up.”

The first Incubator group will be the W3C Content Label Incubator Group, which, according to the W3C’s site, hopes to find “a way of making any number of assertions about a resource or group of resources. In order to be trustworthy, the label containing those assertions should be testable through automated means.”

More information on the W3C’s Incubator project can be found at www.W3.org/2005/Incubator.


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