#1214: [wg/math] Math Group Charter

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Opened Apr 1, 2026

This issue was created because the 'horizontal review requested' label was added to § https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/545

This review is requested prior to the Advisory Committee Review.

New charter proposal, reviewers please take note.

Charter Review

DRAFT Math Working Group Charter

diff from charter template

Expected end of charter refinement phase: unknown

If applicable:

diff from previous charter

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  • New WG
  • New IG
  • Existing
  • Existing WG recharter
  • Existing IG recharter

Substantive changes

‘MathML Core level 2’ is demoted to ‘tentative deliverable’.

Ditto for the requirements for MathML 5.

‘XML Entity Definitions for Characters’, previously mentioned as in scope for a future charter is now explicitly a deliverable. And, related to this, the Unicode Consortium is now mentioned as an organization to coordinate with.

There is additional auxiliary material under ‘other deliverables’, including software and a suggested mapping of LaTeX to accessible MathML.

Communities suggested for outreach

See the section ‘Coordination’ in the draft charter.

Known or potential areas of concern

Issues on the charter can be raised in the mathml-docs repository of the Math WG: https://github.com/w3c/mathml-docs/issues

Anything else we should think about as we review?

Note: proposed chairs should be copied @... on this issue: @NSoiffer, @bkardell

Note: The Technical Strategy Team Lead or Project & Process Team Lead will assign the issue to a Charter Facilitator for new charters. For rechartering, the team contact is the Charter Facilitator by default, please assign the issue to them directly.

Charter facilitator(s)

cc @bert-github

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