Welcome to the HTML/XML Task Force mailing list. This task force was created by the W3C TAG as a way to focus attention on the TAG issue HTML-XML-Divergence-67. It was announced by Tim Berners-Lee during his presentation at the Technical Plenary this past November.

The task force currently consists of

Robin Berjon Michael Champion James Clark John Cowan Michael Kay Yves Lafon (staff contact) Noah Mendelsohn Henri Sivonen Norman Walsh (chair)

With a couple of invitations still outstanding.

Clearly there's a lot of room for discussion about precisely how the task force should even consider addressing the problem presented to it. There is, in fact, room for discussion about the precise nature of the problem, though Tim clearly outlined some of the more apparent issues in his TPAC slides.

The task force had its first meeting this morning and began to wrestle with those questions as a necessary first step towards progress.

Thanks, in advance, to everyone for the time and energy that will be devoted to these questions. Hopefully this is the beginning of a process that will lead us to a place of mutual understanding and consensus about how to build (at least parts of) the web of the future.