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In May of 2020, a number of companies initiated a conversation about the Common Vehicle Interface Initiative (CVII) in a panel discussion held at the GENIVI Virtual Tech Summit, which has led to W3C and GENIVI spearheading a coordination initiative in the automotive industryand web industries.

The core of the initiative gathers around this question:

   “Is it time to finally define the industry-wide standard vehicle data model?"

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The idea of inviting many industry development organizations to a wide initiative was based on seeing a number of industry trends, specific requests from some companies for a similar activity, and a natural extension of collaboration already in place between different industry organizations like GENIVI, W3C, Sensoris, AUTOSAR and others.

After a collection of completing some initial activities (virtual panels, presentations, OEM-only-roundtable meetings, and other outreach), the initiative should now be considered started.  The work is already underway and gradually being organized from a outreach-discussion to become a proper project, or a collection of related projects.

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Remember to reserve the 27th and 29th of October and register

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OEM Panel during the GENIVI Virtual Event (27th October, 1510 Central Europe Time /

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10:00 am US Eastern Time) entitled "Why does the industry need a Common Vehicle Interface?"

Representatives from Ford, Renault and Volvo Cars give compelling support for the initiative to build a common vehicle interface.   

2. W3C community outreach (27th October, Europe/US time zone)

A presentation of the CVII will be done in parallel during the plenary part of W3C TPAC and TPAC participants are invited to join the following workshop that takes place during the GENIVI AMM.
W3C members are encouraged to register to that event through their representative.   Since this is the plenary session for W3C, it has the opportunity to spread the word about this automotive-specific work to a variety of protocol experts in many other fields.   If the participants are not already aware of the upcoming workshop, they will be invited to hop over to the Workshop when it starts.

3. CVII Work Definition Workshop (27th October, Europe/US time zone)

Following the introductory panel, there will be significant workshops in which we expect different stakeholders who are already active to lead discussions on various sub-topics that include

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