1. W3C and the EU Digital Single Market Daniel Dardailler Director of International Relations Brussels - OFE Workshop June 30th 2015

2. Plan W3C overview W3C Europe Policy matters

3. Sir Tim BERNERS-LEE WEB 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

4. 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 DirectorProcess Document

6. 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

7. HTML 5

8. W3C Europe Hosted by ERCIM (INRIA before 2003)ERCIM 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 !Europe

9. 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..

10. 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 ?

11. 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)