News came yesterday that W3C plans not to renew the XHTML 2 Working Group’s charter when it expires at the end of 2009, in order to increase resources on HTML 5, as (quietly) reported in the W3C news archive:

…[W]hen the XHTML 2 Working Group charter expires as scheduled at the end of 2009, the charter will not be renewed. By doing so, and by increasing resources in the HTML Working Group, W3C hopes to accelerate the progress of HTML 5 ( cont’d… )