The next few months will be interesting, I think. I've been asked to join the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group as a W3C Invited Expert. Specifically, I'm going to be contributing to the work of the Content Tranformation Task Force over the next few months.
If you've been reading this blog, you may know that the task force's attention is on a topic which interests me: over the last couple of years the deployment of transforming proxies within network operators has caused headaches for mobile content providers, and led to some quite fiery debate in various online forums. I'm looking forward to contributing a perspective from the corner of the mobile ecosystem where Future Platforms and our clients sit: independent software developers and content providers.
And - I appreciate these words may come back to haunt me - I'm really looking forward to seeing the work of a standards body from the inside. This is an aspect of the industry I've never experienced - other than through the artifacts the W3C etc. produce - and I'm curious to understand it better.
Hi Tom, this sounds fascinating. The topic is also something I have spent considerable time on. Would love to hook up with you at some point to exchange some views.
Regards - Jag
Posted by: Jag | September 07, 2008 at 03:49 PM
Tom - great to have you on board!
-Philipp
Posted by: Philipp Hoschka | September 07, 2008 at 07:14 PM
Congrats, Tom - this is great stuff and a subject I am *very* interested on and on which I've worked for a good part of the past 12 months. I wonder if there's any way I can participate on the discussions?
Posted by: Bernardo Carvalho | September 12, 2008 at 05:48 PM
Bernardo - of course! The home page for the group is at
http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/Group/TaskForces/CT/
And there's details of the mailing list where issues are discussed, plus minutes from calls on this page - it's all public.
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