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W3C and the EU Digital Single Market: Shaping the Web's Future

Exploring the role of W3C in European policy matters, global standards, and Web innovation. Insights from Daniel Dardailler, Director of International Relations. Learn how W3C drives consensus, neutrality, and openness to empower the digital ecosystem.

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W3C and the EU Digital Single Market: Shaping the Web's Future

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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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