[wg/wasm] WebAssembly WG rechartering

[sideshowbarker]

New charter proposal, reviewers please take note.

Charter Review

Charter

diff from charter template

Expected end of charter refinement phase: 2026-03-29

chair dashboard

What kind of charter is this? Check the relevant box / remove irrelevant branches.

• Existing WG recharter

Horizontal Reviews: apply the Github label "Horizontal review requested" to request reviews for accessibility (a11y), internationalization (i18n), privacy, security, and TAG. Also add a "card" for this issue to the Strategy Funnel.

Known or potential areas of concern

Where would charter proponents like to see issues raised?

This strategy funnel issue.

Anything else we should think about as we review?

Nothing

@dschuff @lukewagner

[annevk]

The link in OP points to the active-but-expired charter. Where is the new charter?

[sideshowbarker]

The link in OP points to the active-but-expired charter. Where is the new charter?

There isn't updated/new one yet. We're working on it and will have it up as soon as possible.

[sideshowbarker]

Update: I’ve changed the draft-charter link in the issue description to https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/wasm-wg-charter.html. But at this point, even that is still just a copy of the existing charter.

But I think what we’ll end up doing is, using the PR mechanism in the https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/ repo to collaborate on updating it.

Regardless, once we do get it updated (soon-ish), I will post another comment here.

[tidoust]

@sideshowbarker, ok to initiate charter refinement (with announcement of charter extension). End date for the refinement period should be something like 1-2 months before the extended charter expires.

[sideshowbarker]

ok to initiate charter refinement (with announcement of charter extension). End date for the refinement period should be something like 1-2 months before the extended charter expires.

I’ve sent the internal request to get that started. As soon as that gets reviewed, the message should be out to the AC (hopefully later this week).

[sideshowbarker]

@sideshowbarker, ok to initiate charter refinement (with announcement of charter extension). End date for the refinement period should be something like 1-2 months before the extended charter expires.

Now done: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/2026Jan/0001.html