The Chair and volunteers agreed to maintain the DDWG home page and wiki after this time,[5] to answer questions and encourage implementations.
The idea of implementing a Device Description Repository was discussed at an international workshop[6] held by the DDWG in Madrid, Spain in July, 2006.
This resulted in a proposal to re-charter[7] DDWG to work on the formal design of the programming interfaces, and ways to populate a repository with data and make this available to anyone who wanted to build Web servers that could adapt content to suit the end user devices.
Typically this means providing request headers through the interface and subsequently retrieving values for named properties.
The W3C DDWG produced an initial vocabulary of such properties (based on a formal ontology), and an interface for the retrieval functionality.