This talk will give an update on what's going on at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with respect to Internationalization. You will hear about our current work on the Character Model for the World Wide Web and Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs), and about our plans for the future. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is in the process of drafting a new charter for its Internationalization Activity. In order to find out what the wider Web community sees as the main priorities for Web Internationalization, the W3C held an Internationalization Workshop in association with the Twentieth International Unicode Conference (IUC20). The Conclusions of the Workshop are available, as are the Minutes, the Position Statements and the archived mail messages.

The talk will be followed by a Panel on Web Internationalization where you will have the opportunity to raise your questions and comments.

You are invited to subscribe and contribute to the W3C Internationalization Activity mailing list, www-international@w3.org (see archive). To subscribe, send a mail, with 'subscribe' in the subject line, to www-international-request@w3.org (subscribe now).