The HTML WG recently held a vote which defines the starting point of actual work within the WG, with the following questions asked:

Shall we Adopt HTML5 as our specification text for review?
Shall the W3C’s next-generation HTML specification be named “HTML 5″?
HTML5 Specification Editors

The results from that vote are:

The specification for the next generation of HTML [...]

Some time ago, Matthew Pennell of Digital Web Magazine asked me if I’d be interested in writing an opinion-based article about XHTML2 and HTML5. So, of course, I wrote it – check it out at Digital Web Magazine – HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web.

If you’ve followed the discussion about the W3C HTML WG, you’ve no doubt read Chris Wilson’s comments on it. I’d like to bring one thing up in particular:
PS: On error correction standardization – I disagree with this goal of the WHAT WG because I don’t believe it is responsible for Microsoft to cause any unnecessary [...]