Standards

There are a lot of people at Mozilla working with a variety of different standards bodies. This is a directory of standards organizations (and sub-orgs like working groups) listing who at Mozilla is working with each.

Web Standards Coordination

To encourage better web standards coordination and cross-pollination, the sections below are organized alphabetically by standards body, then alphabetically by working group (if any), then the list of Mozilla folks participating in that working group, optionally listing which particular specifications (or sections thereof) that they edit/author/contribute to.

If you actively communicate/participate with a standards body, please add yourself (and the standards body / working group if necessary).

If you work in multiple working groups or with multiple standards organizations, list yourself in each, linking to your wiki User page.

For standards development/implementation see and add to: Standards implementation

Thanks!

— Tantek

general participation

If you'd like to participate in some of these groups, or at least watch, learn, get up to speed, you can almost always do so by lurking on the public IRC channels and mailing lists that the groups use. Many (most?) standards mailing lists can often be overwhelming in quantity, depth so start with IRC as that's often lighter-weight and easier to watch for quick bits of info/knowledge.

• Follow the instructions on the IRC wiki page to:
  • Set yourself up with a nickname and connection to irc.mozilla.org.
• Add a connection to irc.freenode.net (also with [x] SSL) where many standards discussions take place.
• Add another connection to irc.w3.org but specifically port 6665 (unprotected, no nickname registration).
• See each standards section below for which IRC channel(s) tend(s) to be used by folks working in each group.

ECMA

• Brendan Eich
• dherman
• Allen Wirfs-Brock (Project Editor)
• Andreas Gal

Specifications: ECMAScript 5, 5.1, 6, Harmony, etc.

IETF

http://ietf.org/

• ... no lead currently ...

HyBi

• HyBi (WebSockets)
  • Pat McManus
  • Chris Blizzard (emeritus as of 2012-03-16)

TLS (SSL)

• Brian Smith

VCARDDAV

vcarddav group/list.

• Tantek Çelik

Specifications: vCard4

Opus

• Jean-Marc Valin (:jmspeex)
• Tim Terriberry (:derf)
• Ralph Giles (:rillian)

rtcweb

• Randell Jesup
• Tim Terriberry
• Ralph Giles

Khronos

WebGL

microformats

http://microformats.org/ and microformats wiki

• Tantek Çelik (founder, admin)
• Michael Kaply
• ...

Specifications:

• hCard - implemented in Firefox DOM
• hCalendar - implemented in Firefox DOM
• ... and many others.

OWF

http://openwebfoundation.org/

• Tantek Çelik (elected board member)

Specifications:

• Open Web Foundation Agreement (OWFa)

W3C

http://w3.org/

• Participating in a W3C Working Group
• W3C Charter Development and Review
• Member-confidential (unfortunately) list of groups Mozilla participates in

Advisory Committee representative

• David Baron

Audio Incubator Group

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/audio/

• Alistair MacDonald

Audio Working Group

• Matthew Gregan

Browser Testing and Tools Working Group

• David Burns

Specifications:

• APIs (application programming interfaces) for use in automated testing of Web applications
• APIs for use in troubleshooting and debugging of Web applications

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Working Group

• home page: http://w3.org/Style/CSS/
• discussions: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/

Working group members related to Mozilla (also on w3c-css-wg)

• David Baron
• Tantek Çelik
• John Daggett
• fantasai
• Aryeh Gregor
• Masayuki Nakano
• Jet Villegas

Additional www-style list participants related to Mozilla (anyone is welcome to join)

• Robert O'Callahan
• Henri Sivonen
• Boris Zbarsky
• ...

Specifications: CSS21, CSS3

Federated Social Web Incubator Group

W3C Federated Social Web Incubator Group (FSW IG) http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/ and FSW wiki

• Tantek Çelik
• David Ascher
• Shane Caraveo
• ...

HTML Working Group

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) Working Group (WG), sometimes listed as "HTML5 WG" http://www.w3.org/html/wg/

• Tantek Çelik
• Jonas Sicking
• Henri Sivonen
• Mounir Lamouri
• Jet Villegas
• ...

Specifications: HTML5

HTML Speech Incubator Group

• Olli Pettay
• David Bolter

Indie UI Events

http://www.w3.org/2011/11/indie-ui-charter

• David Bolter will monitor.

Internationalization Working Group

http://w3.org/International/

• fantasai

Media Fragments Working Group

• Chris Double

Protocols and Formats Working Group

(Web Accessibility) Protocols and Formats Working Group (PF WG)

• David Bolter

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Working Group

http://w3.org/SVG/

• Cameron McCormack (co-chair)
• Brian Birtles
• Jonathan Watt

Specifications: SVG 1.1

Tracking Protection Working Group

http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/

• Aleecia McDonald (WG chair)
• Thomas Lowenthal

Web Applications Working Group

• Jonas Sicking
• Cameron McCormack
• Olli Pettay
• Arun Ranganathan

Specifications: IndexedDB, Web IDL, XMLHttpRequest, DOM 3 Events, etc

Web Events Working Group

• Olli Pettay
• Matt Brubeck

Specifications: Touch Events

WebFonts Working Group

• Jonathan Kew (editor)
• John Daggett

Web Media Text Tracks Community Group

http://www.w3.org/community/texttracks/

• Ralph Giles (:rillian)

Specifications: something WebVTT-ish, we hope.

Web Notification Working Group

• Doug Turner

Web Performance Working Group

• Cameron McCormack
• Kyle Simpson

Specifications: Timing control for script-based animations (requestAnimationFrame)

WebRTC Working Group

WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications) Working Group

• Tim Terriberry
• Anant Narayanan
• Ralph Giles

Specifications: Media capture & streaming APIs

Web Security Working Group (forming)

• Brandon Sterne
• Dan Veditz

Specifications: CSP, CORS (jointly with WebApps WG)

WHATWG

Web Hypertext Application Technologies Working Group - http://whatwg.org

• David Baron
• Tantek Çelik
• Brendan Eich
• Jonas Sicking
• Henri Sivonen
• Mounir Lamouri
• ...

Web Editing specification - http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/editing/raw-file/tip/editing.html

• Ehsan Akhgari

other

CA/Browser Forum

The CA/Browser Forum produces standards in the area of best practice and validation for certificate authorities.

• Kathleen Wilson
• Sid Stamm
• Gervase Markham

CalConnect

Mozilla is a member of CalConnect, The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, which is not actually affiliated w/ IETF or W3C but in practice drives development and interoperability testing of IETF specs:

• RFC 5545 iCalendar (obsoletes RFC 2445).
• RFC 4791 CalDAV Access protocol

See their Index to Calendaring and Scheduling Standards for other specific standards that CalConnect is involved with.

XMPP

Mozilla is not formally associated with the XSF but has representation indirectly. http://xmpp.org/

• Mike Taylor (bear) - elected board member

emeritus

Former Mozillians who worked on standards:

• Chris Blizzard (til 2012-03-16)
  • #IETF
  • #rtcweb
  • #WebRTC_Working_Group

subpages of Standards

• Standards/
• Standards/GitHub IPR Organization
• Standards/Github IPR Organization
• Standards/License
• Standards/Outreach
• Standards/Participating in TC39
• Standards/Participating in a W3C Working Group
• Standards/SEO
• Standards/TPAC2013
• Standards/W3C Charter Development and Review
• Standards/emeritus
• Standards/license
• Standards/priorities
• Standards/technologies
• Standards/w3c-interest-community-groups

related

See also:

• Events - which include web standards-related events.
• SEO/Standards - how to use standards to improve/optimize search results