Network-Friendly App and WebApp Best Practices Community Group
Welcome to the W3C Community Group for Network Friendly applications!
In this group, we are looking for contributions to help us reach the widest possible consensus in a critical area facing the mobile industry.
Smartphones and smartphone applications have established themselves as a major success story in the industry over the past few years. As the number of smartphones and smartphone applications has increased the industry has learnt much on how to create efficient applications for smartphones.
The GSMA has created a set of guidelines for application developers that will enable improvements across a number of areas including application connectivity, power consumption, network reliability and security.
By following these guidelines
- Developers will be better equipped to create fit-for-purpose apps
- Users will experience more responsive and reliable apps and improved battery life
- Mobile operators will see a reduced strain on their networks
GSMA intends to issue an update of the above document by end of 2012. As such, it has compiled a list of items for inclusion in the update after consulting GSMA’s members; they include network operators and device manufactures.
To ensure the new update will have the widest possible support by all communities across the industry, we have created a Community Group called ‘network friendly Developer guidelines’ under auspices of W3C.
The new CG is formed with a view to engage other developers or interested parties and reach a consensus as what needs to be added beyond what has already been proposed by GSMA. The proposed items for inclusion are embedded in this document. Check out
http://www.w3.org/community/networkfriendly/wiki/images/b/be/Proposed_items_for_inclusion_in_the_update.doc
to download the current suggestions as approved by GSMA.
As the update will be released by end of 2012, all changes should be agreed in time before the actual work of writing and editing the document starts in earnest and no later than 1st September 2012. That means the outcome of activities in the CG would be a list of items for inclusion beyond what has already been proposed by GSMA. The outcome would be considered by GSMA for inclusion when updating the document.
In Brief, the goal and milestones to bear in mind are as follows.
Goal
To produce a set of items for inclusion in the updated document beyond what has already been suggested (see the enclosed document)
Key milestones
19th April to 10th August 2012 to discuss the base document and the proposed updates and reach consensus in the CG on any additional proposals
11th August to 18th August is the cooling off period to take on board last minute suggestions and final touches
19th August to 31st August, GSMA will consider the final input from CG prior to commencing work on the update in September
As a rule of thumb, the entire process would be transparent and inclusive to reach agreement by discussion. In the unlikely event of not reaching consensus on burning issues, the (yet to be named) CG chair would make the final decision only as a last resort.
You are invited to actively engage with the process to make the resulting document much better than its debut version. We welcome views and contribution with an open mind.
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Attendees: Guenter Klas (GK), Philipp Hoschka (PH), Ian Panel (IP), Bryan Sullivan (BS) and Kamran Kordi (KK)
KK provided an overview of the CG ‘s mission and its background. It was emphasised that the CG’s mission is to consider GSMA’s base document and its accompanying update proposal with the view to provide further input for developing version 2 of the document.
In summary, CG’s output would be a set of complementary proposals to be considered by GSMA when updating the base document. The target date of end of August 2012 to provide the final input to the CG was also highlighted.
The attendees discussed means and ways of making the CG more appealing to the wider developer community and the following action items were adopted.
1) To place GSMA’s base document on the Wiki page to make it readily available for commenting as compared with downloading the PDF file. IP to provide a word version to enable document’s cut and paste to the Wiki (IP)
2) Current GSMA’s proposal for updating the document to be placed on the WikI as its current word document needs to be downloaded by participants (KK)
3) PH to use the current W3C’s mailing channel and its home page blog to advertise CG’s presence and purpose (PH)
4) A list of companies who are considered to be trend setters with the developer communities to be placed on the Wiki with the view to approach them and enlist their support (KK)
(original text created by Kamran Kordi, Deutsche Telekom)
Welcome to the W3C Community Group for Network Friendly applications!
In this group, we are looking for contributions to help us reach the widest possible consensus in a critical area facing the mobile industry.
Smartphones and smartphone applications have established themselves as a major success story in the industry over the past few years. As the number of smartphones and smartphone applications has increased the industry has learnt much on how to create efficient applications for smartphones.
The GSMA has created a set of guidelines for application developers that will enable improvements across a number of areas including application connectivity, power consumption, network reliability and security.
By following these guidelines
Developers will be better equipped to create fit-for-purpose apps
Users will experience more responsive and reliable apps and improved battery life
Mobile operators will see a reduced strain on their networks
GSMA intends to issue an update of the above document by end of 2012. As such, it has compiled a list of items for inclusion in the update after consulting GSMA’s members; they include network operators and device manufactures.
To ensure the new update will have the widest possible support by all communities across the industry, we have created a Community Group called ‘network friendly Developer guidelines’ under auspices of W3C.
The new CG is formed with a view to engage other developers or interested parties and reach a consensus as what needs to be added beyond what has already been proposed by GSMA. The proposed items for inclusion are embedded in this document. Click on
to download the current suggestions as approved by GSMA.
As the update will be released by end of 2012, all changes should be agreed in time before the actual work of writing and editing the document starts in earnest and no later than 1st September 2012. That means the outcome of activities in the CG would be a list of items for inclusion beyond what has already been proposed by GSMA. The outcome would be considered by GSMA for inclusion when updating the document.
In Brief, the goal and milestones to bear in mind are as follows.
Goal
To produce a set of items for inclusion in the updated document beyond what has already been suggested (see the enclosed document)
Key milestones
19th April to 10th August 2012 to discuss the base document and the proposed updates and reach consensus in the CG on any additional proposals
11th August to 18th August is the cooling off period to take on board last minute suggestions and final touches
19th August to 31st August, GSMA will consider the final input from CG prior to commencing work on the update in September
As a rule of thumb, the entire process would be transparent and inclusive to reach agreement by discussion. In the unlikely event of not reaching consensus on burning issues, the (yet to be named) CG chair would make the final decision only as a last resort.
You are invited to actively engage with the process to make the resulting document much better than its debut version. We welcome views and contribution with an open mind.
