The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) have announced mutual interest in combining their respective organisations to more quickly advance publishing technologies on the Open Web Platform.
Tim Berners-Lee, Web Inventor and W3C Director, and Bill McCoy, IDPF Executive Director unveiled the plans following Berners-Lee's keynote address at IDPF DigiCon at Book Expo America 2016 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Following the announcement, representatives from W3C and IDPF explained that for three years, members from their respective communities have been collaborating to identify how the publishing industry's technology and expertise can improve the Web, and how Web technologies can create greater opportunities for the publishing industry.
The next steps in the process of combining the two organisations include soliciting comments from the respective memberships of W3C and IDPF and drafting a Memorandum of Understanding. Pending support from both memberships, completion of legal review, and the positive resolution of specific details, the goal is to combine the two organisations by January of 2017. The future evolution of EPUB technical standards would continue at W3C, along with broader work to improve publishing features across the entire Open Web Platform.
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