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<h1>QA Interest Group Charter (<acronym title="Quality Assurance Interest Group">QA IG</acronym>)</h1>
<p><em>This charter is part of a <a href="qa-activity-proposal">QA Activity Proposal</a>. This charter is written in accordance with <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/groups.html#WGCharter">section 6.2.6</a> of the W3C Process Document. See also the <a href="/QA/IG/charter200510">previous QA IG charter</a>.</em></p>
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<h3 class="toc">Table of Contents</h3>
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<li><a class="toc" href="#Mission">Mission Statement</a></li>
<li><a class="toc" href="#Scope">Scope and Success Criteria</a></li>
<li><a class="toc" href="#Duration">Duration</a></li>
<li><a class="toc" href="#Deliverables">Deliverables</a></li>
<li><a class="toc" href="#Dependencies">Dependencies</a></li>
<li><a class="toc" href="#Confidentiality">Confidentiality</a></li>
<li><a class="toc" href="#Meetings">Meetings</a></li>
<li><a class="toc" href="#Comms">Communication Mechanisms</a></li>
<li><a class="toc" href="#Participate">Participation</a></li>
<li><a class="toc" href="#Disclosures">Patent Disclosures</a></li>
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<h2 id="Mission">1. Mission Statement</h2>
<p>The main objective of the <strong>QA Interest Group</strong> (<acronym title="Quality Assurance Interest Group">QA IG</acronym>) to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web community to share their experiences and involvement with QA. This includes in particular: </p>
<ul>
<li>A round table for discussion of QA-related work at W3C (e.g.,
publication of high-quality specifications, test development,
certification),</li>
<li>A communication channel between W3C and external QA experts,</li>
<li>A communication channel for helping the developer community work more
closely with W3C, and in particular, W3C groups.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="Scope">2. Scope and Success Criteria</h2>
<h3>Scope</h3>
<p>As an Interest Group, the <strong>QA IG</strong> has <strong>no mandatory deliverables</strong> besides keeping their <a href="/QA/IG/"><acronym title="Quality Assurance Interest Group">QA IG</acronym> home page</a> up-to-date and publishing timely minutes of their meetings. However, the <acronym title="Quality Assurance Interest Group">QA IG</acronym> may publish W3C Interest Group Notes to reflect <acronym title="Quality Assurance Interest Group">QA IG</acronym> discussions and/or maintenance of QA WG deliverables.</p>
<h3>The scope of the QA IG work includes:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance of QA WG deliverables (erratas, evolution of W3C Notes)</li>
<li>Education and outreach which includes:
<ul>
<li>Writing tutorials or helping groups to write them;</li>
<li>Sharing experience in the area of validation;</li>
<li>Sharing experience in areas of certification</li>
</ul>
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<li>Tool development, through discussions with the W3C Systems Team</li>
<li>W3C specification reviews. The QA IG will focus on First Public Working Drafts (the time to provide incentives for QA integration and to detect early issues), and at Last Call</li>
<li>Tracking QA developments outside W3C</li>
</ul>
<h3>Criteria for success</h3>
<p>QA IG is an active forum of discussion contributing to the production and maintenance of quality deliverables published previously by the QA Working Group and W3C in general.</p>
<ul>
<li>Minutes of QA IG meetings and teleconferences</li>
<li>Publication every 6 months of a report giving an overview of what has been done in the QA IG in terms of discussions, published documents</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="Duration">3. Duration</h2>
<p>This Interest Group is scheduled to last through 30 September 2007.</p>
<h2 id="Deliverables">4. Deliverables</h2>
<p>As an Interest Group, the <acronym title="Quality Assurance Interest Group">QA IG</acronym> has <strong>no mandatory deliverables</strong> in the form of software, W3C Interest Group Notes, or Recommendations, but it is expected that a number of W3C Interest Group Notes will be published. The development and maintenance of QA tools and software, such as validators, will be developed through the Web community effort and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/qa-dev">QA Dev community</a>.</p>
<h2 id="Dependencies">5. Dependencies</h2>
<p>The <acronym title="Quality Assurance Interest Group">QA IG</acronym> coordinates its outgoing activities through the Communication Team and may liaise with other W3C Activities for QA related topics.</p>
<p>One of the roles of the <acronym title="Quality Assurance Interest Group">QA IG</acronym> is to facilitate, through awareness and
communication, the coordination between the QA practices inside W3C WGs and activities related to W3C conformance happening outside W3C.</p>
<h2 id="Confidentiality">6. Confidentiality Level</h2>
<p> Please note that the proceedings of this Interest Group (mailing list archives, minutes, etc.) are publicly visible. Some of the participants of the QA IG will be part of the W3C Membership, these participants must not disclose information which would be considered as Member Only in the QA IG community.</p>
<h2 id="Meetings">7. Meetings</h2>
<p>The QA IG intends to meet face-to-face during the W3C Technical
Plenary Week. The Chair may choose to organize one additional
face-to-face meeting, with sufficient advance notice, in order for
the group to address pressing issues.</p>
<p>The Chair may organize remote meetings (conducted online or by
telephone or both) with the usual 7 days notice. Regular
teleconferences are not anticipated.</p>
<p>Meeting details are made available on the W3C Member Calendar and
from the <a href="/QA/IG/">QA Interest Group page</a>.</p>
<h2 id="Comms">8. Communication Mechanisms</h2>
<h3 id="Email">8.1 Email</h3>
<p>The <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa">archived</a>
mailing list <a href="mailto:www-qa@w3.org"><tt>www-qa@w3.org</tt></a> is the
primary forum of discussion within the group.</p>
<p>The Chair may put questions to the Interest Group by email, with
responses due in 7 days.</p>
<h3 id="Web">8.2 Web</h3>
<p>The group maintains a <a href="/QA/IG/">public</a> Interest Group page and the <a href="/QA/">QA Home page</a>.</p>
<h3 id="Pubcom">8.3 Communication with the Public</h3>
<p>The <a href="./"><acronym title="Quality Assurance Interest Group">QA IG</acronym> home page</a> is the primary way of communicating
the group's progress to the public.</p>
<h2 id="Participate">9. Participation (Expected Time Commitment)</h2>
<p><a href="mailto:Patrick.Curran@Sun.COM">Patrick Curran</a> of <a href="http://www.sun.com/">Sun Microsystems</a> is the QA Interest Group co-Chair with Karl Dubost.</p>
<p>We expect and will be welcoming different communities to contribute to the Activity:</p>
<ul>
<li>W3C Working Group participants (W3C Team or not) developing specifications;</li>
<li>W3C Working Group participants developing tests for specifications;</li>
<li>W3C Team and other individuals working on validators and test suites;</li>
<li>Organizations that specialize in conformance testing for Web technologies (W3C or not);</li>
<li>End-user advocacy groups tracking and lobbying content and/or product compliance;</li>
<li>Organizations involved in certification and/or labeling of compliant products; and</li>
<li>W3C Members representing end users interested in seeing the Web interoperability dream become a reality.</li>
</ul>
<p>See the <a href="/QA/IG">QA IG home page</a> for information about
joining the group.</p>
<p>From the Team, Conformance Manager <a href="mailto:karl@w3.org">Karl Dubost</a>: 50%. Also, strong coordination is expected with the W3C Systems Team and the Communications Team.</p>
<h2 id="Disclosures">10. Patent Disclosures</h2>
<p>The QA Interest Group provides an opportunity to share perspectives on quality practices. W3C reminds Interest Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy/#sec-Disclosure">Section 6</a> 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.</p>
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Created Date: 2005-08-16 by <a href="/People/karl/">Karl Dubost</a> <<a
href="mailto:karl@w3.org">karl@w3.org</a>>, <acronym
title="World Wide Web Consortium"><a
href="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</a></acronym><br />
Last modified $Date: 2006/03/15 02:38:00 $ by $Author: kdubost $</address>
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