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W3C and the EU Digital Single Market

W3C and the EU Digital Single Market. Daniel Dardailler Director of International Relations Brussels - OFE Workshop June 30th 2015. Plan. W3C overview W3C Europe Policy matters. W3C: Consensus and Neutrality. Lead Web to its Full Potential Open Membership + Public

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W3C and the EU Digital Single Market

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  1. W3C and the EU Digital Single Market Daniel Dardailler Director of International Relations Brussels - OFE Workshop June 30th 2015

  2. Plan • W3C overview • W3C Europe • Policy matters

  3. W3C: Consensus and Neutrality • Lead Web to its Full Potential • Open Membership + Public • Web ecosystem: users, developers, browsers, servers, policy, etc. • ~50 FTE in US(MIT), EU(ERCIM) Japan (Keio) and China (Beihang) Sir Tim BERNERS-LEE WEB INVENTOR AND W3C DIRECTOR

  4. How does W3C work • Each party brings their expertise and perspective Input from all - Output to all • Royalty-Free Standards for the Web • Funded by members (~400, from all world regions) and public grants (EC, DARPA, MITI) • SDO liaising: ISO, IETF, IEEE, OASIS, etc • Led by a Process Document and a Director

  5. Cooperation among all stakeholders • Standardization with Due process, Consensus,Transparency, Balance, Openness • Collective Empowerment benefiting humanity : Global interoperability, scalability, stability, resiliency, competition, innovation, global communities. • Availability of technology with reasonnable IPR • Voluntary Adoption

  6. HTML 5

  7. W3C Europe • Hosted by ERCIM (INRIA before 2003) • 1/3 of the total W3C staff (incl Mgnt) • 12 regional offices in Europe (over 20) • 1/3 members from Europe (+ global leaders) • Each year, dozens of F2F in Europe • The Web was invented in Europe !

  8. Policy matters @ W3C • 1995: PICS, harmful content • 1997: WAI, disability -> ISO 40500-2012 • 1998 – now: ICANN, Internet Governance, IGF, Open Standards, Fragmentation • Privacy, Security, PATENTS! • Public Sector Information, OpenData • Fora&Consortia recognition, still no funding • WebOfThings, Payments, DRM..

  9. Policy Matters EU focus W3C involved in DSM, DA, EIF, etc. • EC MSP + Rolling Plan • Past joint work with ETSI, coord ESOs • Internet Governance NMI/GIPO • Net and Platform Neutrality • Standardization funding, mandate ? • Bottom-up or top-down approach ?

  10. Conclusions • W3C is a global community started technical only, now societal, MSH • France and EU play a big role since the beginning, WAI, SemWeb • EC support is vital, but going through R&D calls is not fair for a major SDO • Risky competition for the OWP: native mobile OS, proprietary IoT APIs, social walled gardens)

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