Standards

Welcome to Mozilla's standards participation page.

Many at Mozilla participate in the development of open web standards, in 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. For a technology summary see the technologies page.

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 directly communicate/participate with a standards body (working group email list, IRC, wiki, and/or f2f meetings), please add yourself (and the specific standards body / working group if any).

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

Thanks!

— Tantek

Web Standards Coordination

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.

Orgless specs

• APNG_Specification
  • fork: MPNGPNG - Mutli-PNG PNG spec

Ecma International

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

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

IETF

http://ietf.org/

• ... no lead currently ...
• ISOC Advisory Council Members:
  • Adam Roach (:abr)
  • Tim Terriberry (:derf)

Calsify (iCalendar)

• Most calendar related standards, list at: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/calsify/current/maillist.html

• Philipp Kewisch

Specifications rfc5545 rfc5546 icalendar-in-json and related.

dnsop

• lshapiro (Larissa Shapiro)

dhcp

• lshapiro (Larissa Shapiro)

HyBi (WebSockets)

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

NETVC (Internet Video Codec)

Proposed charter at http://trac.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/wiki#NETVC

Mailing list at https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec

• Adam Roach (:abr) - Chairing BoF
• Jack Moffitt (:jack)
• Tim Terriberry (:derf)
• Jean-Marc Valin (:jmspeex)
• Nathan Egge

Opus

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

RTCWEB / MMUSIC

• Randell Jesup
• Tim Terriberry
• Ralph Giles
• Adam Roach (:abr)
• Eric Rescorla (EKR)
• Maire Reavy

STIR

• Eric Rescorla

TLS (SSL)

• Brian Smith
• Eric Rescorla

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

Khronos

WebGL

• Jeff Gilbert (:jgilbert)

microformats

http://microformats.org/ and microformats wiki

• irc://irc.freenode.net/microformats
• email lists: http://microformats.org/discuss

Community participants:

• 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

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has Working Groups (WGs), Incubator Groups (IGs), Interest Groups (IGs), and Community Groups (WGs). See below for details and please add any/all of such groups here in alphabetical order by group name.

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

Advisory Board

Elected member to the W3C Advisory Board.

• Tantek Çelik

Advisory Committee representative

• David Baron

See Advisory Committee Representative Directory for who else is an AC Rep from which companies.

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
• Clint Talbert (IRC: ctalbert)

Specifications:

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

Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group

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

• Brendan Eich
• Jonas Sicking
• Ragavan Srinivasan
• Jet Villegas

CSS Working Group

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) Working Group (WG)

• home page: http://w3.org/Style/CSS/
• irc://irc.w3.org:6665/css
• email: 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
• Daniel Holbert
• ...

Specifications: CSS21, CSS3

See also: CSS on this wiki.

Federated Social Web Community Group

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

Participants:

• David Ascher
• Tantek Çelik

was previously: Federated Social Web Incubator Group

Games Community Group

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

• Rob Hawkes
• Alan Kligman
• Dan Mosedale
• Bobby Richter

Geolocation Working Group

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

• Doug Turner

HTML Working Group

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

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

Specifications: HTML5

HTML Speech Incubator Group

• David Bolter
• Olli Pettay

Indie UI Events

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

• David Bolter (monitoring)

Internationalization Working Group

http://w3.org/International/

• fantasai

Media Fragments Working Group

• Chris Double

Near Field Communications Working Group

W3C Near Field Communications (NFC) Working Group

• No one from Mozilla is currently participating.

Want to participate? Please contact David Baron and Tantek.

Pointer Events Working Group

• http://www.w3.org/2012/pointerevents/

Participants:

• Olli Pettay
• Matt Brubeck

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/

Participants:

• Tantek Çelik

Social Web Working Group

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

• Tantek - co-chair

SVG Working Group

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Working Group http://w3.org/SVG/

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

Specifications: SVG 1.1, SVG 2.0

System Applications Working Group

SysApps (System Applications) Working Group participants:

• Brendan Eich
• Jonas Sicking

Tracking Protection Working Group

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

• Alex Fowler
• Thomas Lowenthal
• Sid Stamm

Technical Architecture Group

W3C TAG

• David Baron

Web Applications Working Group

WebApps WG

• Cameron McCormack
• Anant Narayanan
• Olli Pettay
• Arun Ranganathan
• Jonas Sicking
• Tantek Çelik (observer)
• Mounir Lamouri

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
• WebAPI

Web Applications Security Working Group

• Eric Rescorla
• Daniel Veditz
• Francois Marier
• Tanvi Vyas
• Freddy Braun

Web Cryptography Working Group

Web Cryptography Working Group

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

Web Education Community Group

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

• Schalk Neethling
• Jérémie Patonnier
• Janet Swisher

Web Events Working Group / Touch Events Community Group

• Matt Brubeck
• Olli Pettay

Specifications: Touch Events

WebFonts Working Group

• Jonathan Kew (editor)
• John Daggett

Web Hypertext Application Technology Community Group

• David Baron
• Tantek Çelik
• Aryeh Gregor
• Cameron McCormack

See also the complete list of participants.

Specifications: HTML living standard as developed by the WHATWG.

Web Media Text Tracks Community Group

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

• Ralph Giles (:rillian)

Specifications: something WebVTT-ish, we hope.

Web Payments Task Force

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

• Kumar McMillan
• Full list

Web Performance Working Group

• Cameron McCormack
• Kyle Simpson

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

Web Platform Working Group

• Jonas Sicking
• Martin Thomson

WebRTC Working Group

WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications) Working Group

• Ralph Giles
• Maire Reavy
• Eric Rescorla (EKR)
• Tim Terriberry
• Adam Roach (:abr)
• Randell Jesup (:jesup)

Specifications: Media capture & streaming APIs

• Chia-hung Tai(:ctai)
• Tzu-hao Kuo(:kaku)

Specifications: Media Capture Stream with Worker Extensions mediacapture-worker 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
• Mounir Lamouri
• Jonas Sicking
• Henri Sivonen
• Anne van Kesteren
• ...

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.

• Gervase Markham
• Sid Stamm
• Kathleen Wilson

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.

OASIS

• Mozilla point of contact: Gervase Markham
• PKCS#11 working group: Brian Smith

XMPP

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

• no direct involvement by any current Mozillian

C++

C++ is standardized by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 (informally, the "C++ Standards Committee"). All proposals are publically available here.

Botond Ballo is a member of Canada's delegation to the Committee, and has been attending meetings regularly since September 2013. If you have any feedback about any existing proposal, or would like to explore the idea of putting forth a new proposal, please post to dev-platform and cc Botond.

emeritus

people

Former Mozillians who worked on standards or still work on them:

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

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

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

organizations and groups

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

• David Ascher
• Shane Caraveo
• Tantek Çelik

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
• Standards/license - what license Mozilla prefers for standards specifications