Standards/emeritus

This standards related page lists former Mozillians who worked on standards, and former standards groups or organizations that Mozillians participated in.

See the main Standards page for current Mozillians working in active standards organizations and groups.

This page is for historical purposes only.

People

Former Mozillians who worked on standards, and in some cases may still work on them on their own or with a new affiliation (alphabetical by family-name)

• Ehsan Akhgari
  • Audio Working Group
  • Privacy Community Group

• David Ascher
  • Federated Social Web Incubator Group
  • Federated Social Web Community Group

• Panos Astithas
  • Web Performance Working Group

• David Baron
  • CSS Working Group
  • W3C TAG
  • WHATWG

• Jon Bauman
  • Alliance for Open Media (AVIF, Storage and Transport Working Group)

• Brian Birtles
  • CSS Working Group
  • SVG Working Group

• Chris Blizzard (til 2012-03-16)
  • HyBi (WebSockets)
  • IETF
  • RTCWEB
  • WebRTC Working Group

• David Bolter
  • HTML Speech Incubator Group
  • Indie UI Events
  • Protocols and Formats Working Group

• Zbigniew Braniecki (:gandalf, AKA Zibi)
  • TC39/TG2

• Matt Brubeck (til 2019-05)
  • Pointer Events Working Group
  • Web Events Working Group

• Marcos Caceres (:marcosc)
  • Web Applications Working Group
  • Web Payments Working Group
  • WHATWG

• Shih-Chiang Chien
  • Second Screen Working Group

• Lin Clark
  • WebAssembly Community Group

• John Daggett
  • CSS Working Group
  • Web Fonts Working Group

• Dragana Damjanovic
  • IETF: HTTPbis

• Nathan Egge
  • IETF: NETVC

• Brendan Eich
  • Ecma International
  • Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group
  • System Applications Working Group
  • WHATWG

• fantasai
  • CSS Working Group
  • Internationalization Working Group

• Alex Fowler
  • Tracking Protection Working Group

• Ralph Giles (:rillian)
  • CODEC (Opus)
  • RTCWEB / MMUSIC
  • Web Media Text Tracks Community Group

• Dan Gohman
  • WebAssembly Community Group

• Aryeh Gregor
  • CSS Working Group
  • Web Hypertext Application Technology Community Group

• Shu-Yu Guo (til 2017)
  • Ecma International

• Rob Hawkes (til 2013-01-25)
  • W3C Games Community Group

• Dave Herman (dherman) (til ~2017-07)
  • Ecma International

• Andreas Gal (til ~2015-06-05)
  • Ecma International
  • Web Payments Task Force

• Johann Hofmann
  • Privacy Community Group

• J.C. Jones
  • CA/Browser Forum
  • FIDO Alliance
  • W3C Web Authentication Working Group

• Anne van Kesteren
  • WHATWG

• Alan Kligman
  • Games Community Group

• Tzu-hao Kuo(:kaku)
  • WebRTC Working Group

• Mounir Lamouri
  • HTML Working Group
  • Web Applications Working Group
  • WHATWG

• Bradford Lassey
  • Second Screen Working Group

• Thomas Lowenthal
  • Tracking Protection Working Group

• Alistair MacDonald
  • Audio Incubator Group

• Blair MacIntyre
  • Immersive Web Community Group

• Dzmitry Malyshau
  • GPU for the Web Working Group (WebGPU)
  • GPU for the Web Community Group

• Francois Marier
  • Web Applications Security Working Group

• Gervase Markham
  • CA/Browser Forum
  • OASIS

• Cameron McCormack
  • CSS Working Group
  • SVG Working Group (co-chair)
  • Web Performance Working Group

• Patrick McManus (User:Mcmanus)
  • DISPATCH
  • DNS over HTTPS (DoH)
  • HTTPbis
  • QUIC

• Kumar McMillan
  • Web Payments Task Force

• Caitlin Neiman
  • WebExtensions Community Group

• Schalk Neethling
  • Web Education Community Group

• Robert O'Callahan
  • CSS Working Group

• Jérémie Patonnier
  • Web Education Community Group

• EKR
  • ADD
  • DISPATCH
  • QUIC
  • RTCWEB
  • MMUSIC
  • STIR
  • TLS (SSL)
  • Web Applications Security Working Group
  • WebRTC Working Group

• Bobby Richter
  • Games Community Group

• Adam Roach (:abr)
  • ISOC Advisory Council
  • Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), Applications and Real-Time Area
  • IETF DISPATCH
  • IETF NETVC - WG Chair
  • IETF RTCWEB / MMUSIC
  • W3C Web Payments Working Group
  • WebRTC Working Group

• Peter Saint-Andre
  • IETF UTA
  • IETF RFC Editor Future Development Program
  • IETF RFC Series Oversight Committee
  • W3C Web Payments Working Group
  • Federated Identity Community Group
  • Privacy Community Group

• Simon Sapin
  • CSS Working Group

• Till Schneidereit
  • WebAssembly Community Group

• Jonas Sicking
  • Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group
  • System Applications Working Group
  • WHATWG
  • HTML Working Group
  • Web Applications Working Group
  • Web Platform Working Group

• Jen Simmons (ti 2020-05-29)
  • CSS Working Group

• Kyle Simpson
  • Web Performance Working Group

• Brian Smith
  • OASIS PKCS#11 working group

• Trevor F. Smith
  • Immersive Web Community Group

• Ragavan Srinivasan
  • Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group

• Sid Stamm
  • Tracking Protection Working Group
  • CAForum

• Hallvord Steen
  • Web Platform Working Group

• Janet Swisher
  • Web Education Community Group

• Chia-hung Tai (:ctai)
  • WebRTC Working Group

• Mike Taylor (bear) - elected board member
  • XMPP

• Tim Terriberry (:derf)
  • Alliance for Open Media
  • ISOC Advisory Council
  • IETF: NETVC
  • IETF: CODEC
  • IETF: RTCWEB
  • WebRTC Working Group

• Doug Turner
  • Geolocation Working Group

• Jean-Marc Valin (:jmspeex) (until 2019)
  • IETF: NETVC
  • IETF: CODEC

• Sean Voisen
  • CSS Working Group

• Tanvi Vyas
  • Web Applications Security Working Group
  • Privacy Community Group (co-chair)

• Luke Wagner
  • WebAssembly Working Group
  • WebAssembly Community Group

• Chris Van Wiemeersch
  • Immersive Web Community Group

• Jet Villegas
  • CSS Working Group

• Heather West (until 2020-08-31)
  • Tracking Protection Working Group

• Matt Woodrow
  • CSS Working Group

• Alon Zakai
  • WebAssembly Community Group

• Boris Zbarsky
  • CSS Working Group and many other W3C/WHATWG groups/specs

Organizations And Groups

Alphabetical by group name (or org if no specific group)

Advisory Board

W3C Advisory Board (AB) - elected members

• Tantek Çelik (2013-07-01…2018-06-30, 2020-07-01…2022-06-30)

Audio Incubator Group

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

Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group

http://www.w3.org/community/coremob/ - This group closed in September 2013

• Jet Villegas

Federated Social Web Community Group

2012-01-12 ... 2016-12-31 (incorporated into Social Web Incubator Community Group)

• http://www.w3.org/community/fedsocweb/

Participants:

• Tantek Çelik

was previously: Federated Social Web Incubator Group

Federated Social Web Incubator Group

2010-12-15 ... 2012-01-12 (transitioned to Federated Social Web Community Group)

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

• Shane Caraveo
• Tantek Çelik

Geolocation Working Group

Geolocation Working Group (GEO) http://www.w3.org/2008/geolocation/

• ...

HTML Working Group

This group has been effectively closed and most of its deliverables subsumed by the Web Platform Working Group. All that remains is a spin-off EME group, where Henri is our only participant currently.

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

• Tantek Çelik
• Henri Sivonen
• Jet Villegas
• ...

Specifications: HTML5

HTML Media Extensions Working Group

• Henri Sivonen (Previously provided feedback on specs within scope for this WG but not actively participating)

HTML Speech Incubator Group

• David Bolter
• Olli Pettay

HyBi

WebSockets

• Pat McManus

Immersive Web WG

Immersive Web WG (WebXR)

• Kelsey Gilbert (:jgilbert, jdashg)

Note related CG: Immersive Web Community Group

Indie UI Events

home page, charter (previously)

• David Bolter (monitoring)

Media Fragments Working Group

• Chris Double

Media Working Group

• Jean-Yves Avenard

Protocols and Formats Working Group

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

• David Bolter

PubSubHubbub Community Group

http://www.w3.org/community/pubsub/ ... 2016-12-31 (only deliverable incorporated into Social Web Working Group, community incorporated into Social Web Incubator Community Group)

Participants:

• Tantek Çelik

Social Web Working Group

SocialWG - http://www.w3.org/Social/WG

• Tantek - co-chair

Related incubator group: Social Web Incubator Community Group (SocialCG wiki)

System Applications Working Group

WG closed.

SysApps (System Applications) Working Group participants:

• Tantek Çelik

Tracking Protection Working Group

Tracking Protection Working Group (TPWG) closed 2019.

• Alex Fowler
• Thomas Lowenthal
• Sid Stamm
• Heather West (until 2020-08-31)

VCARDDAV

vcarddav group/list at: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/vcarddav/current/maillist.html

• Tantek Çelik
• Philipp Kewisch

Specifications: vCard4 vcard-in-json

Web Applications Working Group (Old)

WebApps WG — the version that was superseded by the Web Platform Working Group — which itself was superseded by a new WebApps WG.

• Cameron McCormack
• Anant Narayanan
• Olli Pettay
• Arun Ranganathan
• Tantek Çelik (observer)

Specifications: IndexedDB, Web IDL, XMLHttpRequest, DOM 3 Events, DOM 4, etc. See the group's PubStatus wiki for a list of all specs.

See also on this wiki:

• DOM

Web Cryptography Working Group

Web Cryptography Working Group

• David Dahl
• Arun Ranganathan
• Eric Rescorla (EKR)

Web Education Community Group

2023-04-07 group closed. http://www.w3.org/community/webed/

• Schalk Neethling

Web Events Working Group

Formerly: Touch Events Community Group

• Matt Brubeck
• Olli Pettay

Specifications: Touch Events

Web Media Text Tracks Community Group

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

Specifications: something WebVTT-ish, we hope.

Web Payments Task Force

http://www.w3.org/wiki/Payments_Task_Force

• Kumar McMillan
• Full list

Web Platform Working Group

https://www.w3.org/WebPlatform/WG/ (members) — superseded by a new Web Applications Working Group

• Karl Dubost
• Marcos Caceres
• Martin Thomson
• Olli Pettay
• Tantek Çelik

Primary work area: https://github.com/w3c/WebPlatformWG

See Also

• Standards