Technical Architecture Group

Technical Architecture Group
AbbreviationTAG
Formation2001
FounderWorld Wide Web Consortium
TypeNonprofit working group
OwnerWorld Wide Web Consortium
Websitetag.w3.org

The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) is a special working group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created in 2001[1] to:[2][3][4]

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

The TAG consists of inventor of the Web and W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee, engineers elected by W3C member organizations, as well as participants directly appointed by Tim Berners-Lee.

  1. ^ "News Release: World Wide Web Consortium Forms Technical Architecture Group from Janet Daly on 2001-12-11 ([email protected] from December 2001)". lists.w3.org. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. ^ "W3C Technical Architecture Group". www.w3.org. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  3. ^ "W3C Technical Architecture Group". tag.w3.org. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  4. ^ "W3C Process Document". www.w3.org. Retrieved 12 January 2022.