W3C Team appointment to the TAG

Following the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG)'s election results, the W3C Team has chosen and the Advisory Board and Technical Architecture Group have ratified the following appointment to the TAG for the 2026-2028 term:
Brian Kardell, Igalia

Per W3C Process Document regarding TAG appointments, this procedure follows a public call for nominations which together with nominations from the W3C Team and Members surfaced a list of several traditional and non-traditional candidates. Several were disqualified because they are employed by Member organizations already on the TAG (per Process rules). The Team considered what each on the list would bring to the TAG.

The Team has two appointments to make for this term. Considering the time constraints, the upcoming TAG Face to Face meeting and generally in order to avoid making the TAG wait unnecessarily the Team appointment is split and the Team is continuing to work on the second Team appointment to the TAG.

About the W3C TAG

The TAG was created in 2001 as a special W3C working group, chartered to steward the web architecture. To do so, it fulfills 3 missions:

• to document and build consensus around principles of web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary;
• to resolve issues involving general web architecture brought to the TAG;
• to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.

The TAG is part of the Horizontal Review Process and reviews a large number of specifications done at W3C and outside, even during their early stage.

The TAG and the W3C Advisory Board are also part of the W3C Council to help resolve objections on specifications.