The Internationalization (I18N) Interest Group is part of the W3C Internationalization Activity.
The HTML Working Group works in public, with details in the WG's Work Mode document. Our mailing list, public-html, is opened to the public.
The number of Web enabled devices that are location-aware has increased markedly as of late. Such devices include mobile phones with cell triangulation or Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities, laptops with Wi-Fi triangulation capabilities and GPS receivers.