W3C and the EU Digital Single

MarketDaniel Dardailler

Director of International Relations

Brussels - OFE Workshop June 30th 2015

Plan

• W3C overview

• W3C Europe

• Policy matters

Sir Tim BERNERS-LEEWEB INVENTOR AND W3C DIRECTOR

• 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)

W3C: Consensus and Neutrality

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

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

HTML 5

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 !

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..

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 ?

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)