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Participation

W3C Member Organizations
  • 4D (no representative)
  • ACCESS CO., LTD. (1 representative)
  • Adobe Systems Inc. (18 representatives)
  • Agencia para el Desarrollo del Gobierno de Gestion Electronica y la Sociedad de la Informacion y del Conocimiento (AGESIC) (2 representatives)
  • Apple, Inc. (15 representatives)
  • AT&T (3 representatives)
  • Avaya Communications (no representative)
  • Baidu, Inc. (13 representatives)
  • BarrierBreak Technologies (no representative)
  • Boeing Company (1 representative)
  • British Broadcasting Corporation (2 representatives)
  • British Sky Broadcasting Ltd. (1 representative)
  • Cable Television Laboratories Inc (2 representatives)
  • Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) (2 representatives)
  • China Electronics Standardization Institute (no representative)
  • China Unicom (no representative)
  • Cisco Systems (1 representative)
  • Comcast Corporation (8 representatives)
  • Cox Communications, Inc. (2 representatives)
  • Creative Commons (no representative)
  • Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) (2 representatives)
  • Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand Government (1 representative)
  • Deque Systems, Inc. (1 representative)
  • Deutsche Telekom AG (1 representative)
  • Disruptive Innovations (1 representative)
  • Dreamlab Technologies AG (1 representative)
  • eBay (1 representative)
  • Educational Testing Service (1 representative)
  • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) (3 representatives)
  • ERICSSON (2 representatives)
  • European Broadcasting Union (EBU-UER) (1 representative)
  • France Telecom (4 representatives)
  • Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (2 representatives)
  • Fundación ONCE (2 representatives)
  • Future Web Technology Labs Inc. (5 representatives)
  • Google, Inc. (23 representatives)
  • Hewlett Packard Company (2 representatives)
  • Home Box Office, Inc. (2 representatives)
  • Huawei (6 representatives)
  • IBM Corporation (3 representatives)
  • Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) (1 representative)
  • Infraware, Inc (4 representatives)
  • INSTITUT TELECOM (1 representative)
  • Intel Corporation (3 representatives)
  • International Webmasters Association (IWA) (4 representatives)
  • Iran Web Festival (1 representative)
  • Irdeto (1 representative)
  • jQuery Foundation (1 representative)
  • Lex Machina (1 representative)
  • LG Electronics (1 representative)
  • Library of Congress (no representative)
  • MarkLogic (1 representative)
  • Maxthon International Limited (1 representative)
  • Microsoft Corp. (20 representatives)
  • MITRE Corporation (1 representative)
  • Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. (2 representatives)
  • Mobile Web Forum (1 representative)
  • MovieLabs (2 representatives)
  • Mozilla Foundation (19 representatives)
  • National ICT Australia (NICTA) Ltd (1 representative)
  • Netflix Inc. (2 representatives)
  • Newphoria Corporation (1 representative)
  • NIC.br - Brazilian Network Information Center (no representative)
  • Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT) (2 representatives)
  • Nokia Corporation (4 representatives)
  • Nomensa (no representative)
  • NXP Software (1 representative)
  • Opera Software (14 representatives)
  • Oracle Corporation (no representative)
  • Pearson plc (1 representative)
  • Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd (4 representatives)
  • Rakuten,Inc. (3 representatives)
  • Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) (3 representatives)
  • Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (4 representatives)
  • SAP AG (1 representative)
  • Shenzhen Coolpad Technologies Co., Ltd. (1 representative)
  • Smart Communications Inc., (no representative)
  • Sony Corporation (4 representatives)
  • Stanford University (1 representative)
  • Telenor (no representative)
  • Tencent (3 representatives)
  • The Apache Software Foundation (no representative)
  • Tomo-Digi Corporation (5 representatives)
  • TopQuadrant (no representative)
  • UCWEB (2 representatives)
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (13 representatives)
  • University of Economics, Prague (1 representative)
  • University of Oxford (1 representative)
  • Verimatrix, Inc. (3 representatives)
  • Vision Australia (no representative)
  • Voxeo (1 representative)
  • Vrije Universiteit (1 representative)
  • Walt Disney Company (2 representatives)
  • Web3D Consortium (2 representatives)
  • Yandex (1 representative)
  • Zynga Inc. (1 representative)
Invited Experts
  • Colin Aarts
  • D.R.Imanuel Abromeit
  • Robert Accettura
  • Chris Adams
  • Glenn Adams
  • Jim Allan
  • Mike Amundsen
  • Tab Atkins Jr.
  • Stephen Axthelm
  • Grzegorz Babula
  • Alex Baeza
  • Raymond Baker
  • Ben Barber
  • Gary Barber
  • Adam Barth
  • Alessandro Bassi
  • Hernan Beati
  • Julien Bechade
  • Othmane Benyoucef
  • Peter Beverloo
  • David Bills
  • Brian Blakely
  • Kimberly Blessing
  • Chris Bold
  • Anders Bondehagen
  • Sierk Bornemann
  • Timothy Boronczyk
  • Denis Boudreau
  • Jason Boyd
  • Craig Buckler
  • Noel Bush
  • Mathias Bynens
  • Craig Cadwallader
  • Kurt Cagle
  • David Carlisle
  • Gavin Carothers
  • Tomas Caspers
  • James Cassell
  • Tantek Çelik
  • David Child
  • Wendy Chisholm
  • David Choi
  • Martijn Croonen
  • Joseph D'Andrea
  • Deborah Dahl
  • Ben Dalton
  • Kevin Davies
  • Andrew Davis
  • Ian Devlin
  • John Drinkwater
  • Marc Drumm
  • Mark DuBois
  • Ptah Dunbar
  • Clair Dunn
  • Dean Edridge
  • Eric Eggert
  • S Emerson
  • Steve Faulkner
  • Andrew Fedoniouk
  • Alejandro Fernandez
  • Matt Field
  • Thomas Fine
  • Markus Fischer
  • David Fisher
  • Nick Fitzsimons
  • John Foliot
  • Geoff Freed
  • Giovanni Gentili
  • Paris Giantsios
  • Dimitri Glazkov
  • Basil Gohar
  • Alexander Graf
  • James Graham
  • Aryeh Gregor
  • Jon Gunderson
  • Lars Gunther
  • Markku Hakkinen
  • Matt Harris
  • David Håsäther
  • Christopher Healey
  • Kai Hendry
  • Andrew Herrington
  • Hans Hillen
  • Krijn Hoetmer
  • Christian Horn
  • Tim Horton
  • Dale Hudjik
  • Jon Hughes
  • Thomas Hühn
  • Lachlan Hunt
  • Eihab Ibrahim
  • Colin Ihrig
  • Toby Inkster
  • Patrick D F Ion
  • Erik Isaksen
  • Moto Ishizawa
  • Yudai Iwasaki
  • Jonas Jacek
  • Susanne Jäger
  • Char James-Tanny
  • Arne Johannessen
  • Greg Johnson
  • Sam Johnston
  • Cameron Jones
  • Morgan Jones
  • Doug Jones
  • Selvaganapathy Kaliamurthy
  • Alexey Kartashev
  • Jeremy Keith
  • Serge K. Keller
  • Don Kiely
  • Sebastian Kippe
  • Martin Kliehm
  • Justin Anthony Knapp
  • Marcel Koeppen
  • Jirka Kosek
  • Marco Kotrotsos
  • Lee Kowalkowski
  • Andreas Kuckartz
  • Shunsuke Kurumatani
  • Alvar Laigna
  • Lucas Larson
  • Patrick Lauke
  • Bruce Lawson
  • Josh Lawton
  • Chasen Le Hara
  • Charles Lee
  • Matt Lee
  • Jane Lee
  • Dean Leigh
  • Kornel Lesinski
  • Danny Liang
  • Jedi Lin
  • Sergey Lizin
  • Robert Love
  • Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu
  • Guillaume Ludwig
  • Andrew Maben
  • Shefik Macauley
  • David MacDonald
  • Vilem Malek
  • Gabriel Mansour
  • Zhihong Mao
  • Mathew Marquis
  • Gian Luca Marroni
  • Robert Marshall
  • Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo
  • Bill Mason
  • Charles McCathie Nevile
  • Cameron McCormack
  • Martin McEvoy
  • Jens Meiert
  • Haymo Meran
  • Simon Myers
  • Stuart Myles
  • Lakshman Nagaraj
  • wilfred nas
  • Felipe Nascimento Moura
  • Marco Neumann
  • Kenneth Nordahl
  • Andrew Norman
  • Joshue O Connor
  • Edward O'Connor
  • Lauren O'Donovan
  • Matt Obee
  • Frank Palinkas
  • Egor Pavlikhin
  • Brian Peppler
  • Noah Peters
  • Simon Pieters
  • Benoit Piette
  • Michael Puls II
  • Andrew Ramsden
  • Matthew Raymond
  • Ron Reisor
  • François REMY
  • Julian Reschke
  • Angela Ricci
  • Ole Riesenberg
  • Nathan Rixham
  • Jude Robinson
  • Alex Robinson
  • Chris Rodriguez
  • Adrian Roselli
  • Catherine Roy
  • Catherine Roy
  • Lucas Sa
  • Rene Saarsoo
  • Janina Sajka
  • Guillermo Salazar
  • Samuel Santos
  • Dave Saunders
  • Hasan Savran
  • Daniel Schattenkirchner
  • Jonas Schneider
  • Leif Halvard Silli
  • Grant Simpson
  • Kyle Simpson
  • Vladimir Sinelnikov
  • David Sleight
  • Dan Smith
  • Dylan Smith
  • Geoffrey Sneddon
  • Manu Sporny
  • Elliott Sprehn
  • Robert Stern
  • Oli Studholme
  • Dionysios Synodinos
  • Yoshinori TAKESAKO
  • Marat Tanalin
  • Mike Taylor
  • Sander Tekelenburg
  • Shane Thacker
  • Nik Thierry
  • Loretta TIOIELA
  • Morten Tollefsen
  • Dominik Tomaszuk
  • Dzenana Trenutak
  • Michael Turnwall
  • Matthew Turvey
  • Wesley Upchurch
  • Mallory van Achterberg
  • Erik van Kempen
  • Christopher Varley
  • John Vernaleo
  • Kent Villard
  • Léonie Watson
  • Jason White
  • Eric Whyne
  • Matt Womer
  • Doug Wright
  • Han Xu
  • Mateo Yadarola
  • Channy Yun
  • Michael Zajac
  • Nicholas Zakas
Team members
  • Kazuyuki Ashimura
  • Robin Berjon
  • Judy Brewer
  • Michael Cooper
  • Richard Ishida
  • Philippe Le Hégaret
  • Mark Sadecki
  • Felix Sasaki
  • Doug Schepers
  • Michael[tm] Smith
  • Jeanne F Spellman
  • Lea Verou

See also the list of individuals participating in this group.

Join or leave this group (see general instructions for joining this group). Advisory Committee Representatives of participating Members may also nominate or change representatives in the group.

The Call for Participation for this group was announced on 7 March 2007; see the Patent Policy FAQ for information about continued participation before re-joining the group.

Licensing Commitments

Participants in this group have made certain licensing commitments by joining the group. In addition to these Participants, 1 non-participating W3C Member has committed to the Patent Policy Licensing terms. See the details about licensing commitments from current and past Participants and other parties.

W3C Members not participating in this group who wish to make the same licensing commitments for specifications developed by this group may do so through a form for licensing commitments from non-participating Members.

Other parties who wish to make the licensing commitments for this group should consult the instructions for non-Members to make licensing commitments for this group.

Specifications for this group

The following is the list of specifications produced by the HTML Working Group that have associated disclosures obligations, and possibly licensing obligations under the W3C Patent Policy.

Drafts
Specification Policy Disclose Exclude Add licensing information Disclosure & exclusion
HTML 5 W3C Disclose No open exclusion opportunity Add licensing information 7 patents have been disclosed
HTML Canvas 2D Context W3C Disclose No open exclusion opportunity Add licensing information N/A
HTML Microdata W3C Disclose No open exclusion opportunity Add licensing information N/A
HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide W3C Disclose No open exclusion opportunity Add licensing information N/A
HTML5: Edition for Web Authors W3C Disclose No open exclusion opportunity Add licensing information N/A
HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2 W3C Disclose No open exclusion opportunity Add licensing information N/A
main element - an HTML5 extension specification W3C Disclose No open exclusion opportunity Add licensing information N/A
HTML 5.1 W3C Disclose No open exclusion opportunity Add licensing information N/A
Media Source Extensions W3C Disclose Exclude until 28 June 2013 Add licensing information N/A
The picture element W3C Disclose Exclude until 26 July 2013 Add licensing information N/A
The srcset attribute W3C Disclose Exclude until 28 July 2013 Add licensing information N/A
Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML W3C Disclose Exclude until 28 July 2013 Add licensing information N/A
HTML Image Description Extension W3C Disclose Exclude until 09 August 2013 Add licensing information N/A
Encrypted Media Extensions W3C Disclose Exclude until 07 October 2013 Add licensing information N/A

See the detailed information on how to disclose a patent, how to exclude a patent claim and how to add licensing terms below.

Note: If a specification does not appear in this table, the group may have identified it as being "informative only." To add or modify an item in this table, please refer to the IPP instructions.

Patent Disclosures and Claim Exclusions

This section summarizes patent disclosures by participants in W3C's HTML Working Group as required by section 6 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy. Note: This disclosure mechanism applies to all W3C Working Groups after 15 February 2004, per the Patent Policy Transition Procedure.

W3C takes no position regarding either:

  1. the validity or scope of any intellectual property right or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology, or
  2. the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available from those not participating in this group.

W3C Members are obligated to disclose a patent when they receive a request for disclosure and have personal knowledge of the patent under the following conditions:

Where disclosure is required by a W3C Member, the AC Representative makes the disclosure.

Anyone else may also make a disclosure.

Known Disclosures

Disclosures for HTML 5

The entry in the first column links to details about the disclosed patent, including any excluded claims or additional licensing information that has been provided.

Patent for HTML 5Excluded claims?Notes on exclusions
Laid-open/published patent application #11/144,384 (U.S.) held by Apple, Inc. None
Laid-open/published patent application #05766079.7 (Pub. No. EP1759306A1) (EP) held by Apple, Inc. None
Laid-open/published patent application #07105815.5 (HK Pub. No. 198225) (Hong Kong) held by Apple, Inc. None
Laid-open/published patent application #unpublished pending application (unpublished - can refer to WO/2006/012168 ) held by Apple, Inc. None
Laid-open/published patent application #unpublished pending application (unpublished - can refer to WO/2006/012168 ) held by Apple, Inc. None
Laid-open/published patent application #unpublished pending application (unpublished pending application) held by Apple, Inc. None
Laid-open/published patent application #unpublished pending application (unpublished pending application) held by Apple, Inc. None

How to Make a Patent Disclosure

W3C Members and Invited Experts (including those not participating in this group) wishing to disclose a patent for any specification produced by the HTML Working Group should use the HTML Working Group patent disclosure form.

Disclosures from the general public should be sent to the Staff Contacts of this group.

For specifications developed under the W3C Patent Policy, parties that commit to the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Terms are not required to disclose patents. Any party (not just the Working Group Participants) may commit to the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Terms and may do so by following the instructions in the next section.

Claim Exclusions

Only HTML Working Group participants may exclude patent claims concerning specifications developed under the W3C Patent Policy, per section 4 of the W3C Patent Policy. To make an exclusion, participants should use the HTML Working Group patent claim exclusion form, but only after first disclosing the patent.

Exclusion Opportunities

The Patent Policy FAQ provides detailed information about exclusion opportunities, that is, when a Working Group Participant can exclude a patent claim.

Each exclusion opportunity has a duration. See section 4.1 of the W3C Patent Policy and section 2 of the Patent Policy Transition Procedure for information on how the exclusion deadline is calculated.

At each exclusion opportunity, Participants may exclude patent claims with respect to a body of text. The Reference Draft is the reference body of text for the current exclusion opportunity.

Note: At each new exclusion opportunity (e.g., in the case of a second Last Call), exclusions are only with respect to differences since the previous reference body of text. These differences may be less than an entire document, and the summary below does not (yet) address that granularity. Also, in some edge cases (discussed in the FAQ), Participants, depending on when they joined the Working Group, will have different Reference Drafts; the summary below does not reflect this case.

History of Exclusion Opportunities

HTML 5
  1. Call for exclusion sent on 22 January 2008; opportunity ended on 20 June 2008
  2. Call for exclusion sent on 25 May 2011; opportunity ended on 24 July 2011
HTML Canvas 2D Context
  1. Call for exclusion sent on 25 May 2011; opportunity ended on 24 July 2011
HTML Microdata
  1. Call for exclusion sent on 27 May 2010; opportunity ended on 24 October 2010
  2. Call for exclusion sent on 25 May 2011; opportunity ended on 24 July 2011
HTML5: Edition for Web Authors
  1. Call for exclusion sent on 12 September 2011; opportunity ended on 09 February 2012
  2. Call for exclusion sent on 12 December 2011; opportunity ended on 09 February 2012
  3. Call for exclusion sent on 20 December 2012; opportunity ended on 09 February 2012
HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2
  1. Call for exclusion sent on 20 December 2012; opportunity ended on 16 May 2013
main element - an HTML5 extension specification
  1. Call for exclusion sent on 17 December 2012; opportunity ended on 16 May 2013
HTML 5.1
  1. Call for exclusion sent on 20 December 2012; opportunity ended on 16 May 2013

Additional Licensing Information

As described in section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy:

All Working Group participants are encouraged to provide a contact from which licensing information can be obtained and other relevant licensing information. Any such information will be made publicly available along with the patent disclosures for the Working Group in question.

Patent holders may:

  1. Provide additional licensing information for documents produced by this Working Group
  2. Provide the same additional licensing information for all documents with associated licensing obligations produced by this Working Group, or
  3. Provide additional licensing information for any W3C document with associated licensing obligations produced by any W3C Working Group under the W3C Patent Policy.

Please recall that, per section 5 of the W3C Patent Policy, a W3C Royalty-Free license:

may not impose any further conditions or restrictions on the use of any technology, intellectual property rights, or other restrictions on behavior of the licensee, but may include reasonable, customary terms relating to operation or maintenance of the license relationship such as the following: choice of law and dispute resolution.

Any additional licensing information that has been provided is listed below. The section below will be empty when no additional licensing information has been provided.

Note: All actions carried out through this system are reported by email to the relevant parties; copies are sent to w3c-archive@w3.org (Member-readable archive).


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