After three years of collaboration, the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) announced from BEA that discussions are ongoing about having the organization absorbed into the larger — but more broadly focused — World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The press release says they are exploring “mutual interest in combining their respective organizations to more quickly advance publishing technologies on the Open Web Platform.” Comments will be solicited from the organizations’ members — for a little while — and initial reactions on Tuesday made it clear that some IDPF members may not be ready to give up on an independent organization to become […]
