[Chapter-delegates] ISOC Board Meeting and Resolution to Support Evolution of W3C Organizational Structure

[Eduardo Diaz]

Can someone explain how the W3C progress is going to be measured on?

Eduardo Diaz
ISOC-Puerto Rico


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <
isolatedn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> ISOC grant of US $ 2.5 million over three years would supplement W3C's
> annual revenue by fees that ranges from about 1000 Euro for a non-profit
> organization in a low-income country to about 70000 Euro for a profit
> organization in a high income country.
>
> 1. Does this grant of 2.5 million dollars over three years go towards any
> specific program or any specific improvement at W3C ?  "to help make w3c
> more independent sounds insufficient as a description.
>
> 2. Apart from the W3C spending this grant on useful programs efficiently,
> it could also conserve its resources by aligning better with ISOC. W3C
> could, for a start, align its TPAC meeting to IETF meetings which if
> organized as a single event, would conserve resources, and enhance the
> overall 'bandwdith' by having W3C experts and IETF experts together for a
> meeting at the same place. Web Standards are part of Internet Standards, if
> we view the Web as part of the Internet.  So why should the IETF and W3C
> meetings be separate?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
> Blog: http://isocmadras.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Raul Echeberria <raul at lacnic.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> El 13/12/2009, a las 09:44 p.m., Veni Markovski escribió:
>>
>>
>>  btw, the press release of ISOC is on the main site, and here are the Q&A:
>>> http://www.isoc.org/standards/isoc-w3c-faq.shtml
>>>
>>> In case you were wondering how much is the financial support - it's $ 2.5
>>> Million over 3 years. Let's all hope that it will help W3C become
>>> independent.
>>>
>>>
>> This is what is said in the Q&A, but it is not exact. This is the
>> intention for the contribution, but really, there will be 3 anual payments
>> and ISOC will have the power to stop the contribution based on the (lack of)
>> progresses made by W3C and the reports about how the money is being spent.
>>
>> The anual contributions will be: 500k, 1M, 1M.
>>
>>
>> Raúl
>>
>>
>>
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