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       <h1 id="title"><i class="todo">DRAFT</i> Exploration Interest Group Charter</h1>
       <!-- delete PROPOSED after AC review completed -->
 
-      <p class="mission">The <strong>mission</strong> of the <a href="">Exploration Interest Group</a> 
-        is to help the W3C community exploring emerging web-related technology trends and consider how the community could collaborate to shape those trends for the benefit of web users.</p>
-      <!-- the link to the group is ALWAYS that available from https://www.w3.org/groups/wg or https://www.w3.org/groups/ig because each group page can then point to a different homepage, but not the other way around. -->
+      <p class="mission">The <strong>mission</strong> of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/[shortname]">Exploration Interest Group</a>
+        is to provide W3C Members with a forum to explore and discuss emerging web-related technology trends
+        and consider how the community could collaborate to shape those trends for the benefit of web users.
+      </p>
 
       <div class="noprint">
-        <p class="join"><a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/[shortname]/join">Join the Exploration Interest Group.</a></p>
+        <p class="join"><a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/[shortname]/join">Join the Exploration Interest Group.</a></p>
       </div>
 
       <!-- delete the GH link after AC review completed -->
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ <h1 id="title"><i class="todo">DRAFT</i> Exploration Interest Group Charter</h1>
               Charter Status
             </th>
             <td>
-              <i class="todo">See the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/[shortname]/charters">group status page</A> and <a href="#history">detailed change history</a>.</i>
+              <i class="todo">See the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/[shortname]/charters">group status page</A> and <a href="#history">detailed change history</a>.</i>
             </td>
           </tr>		
           <tr id="Duration">
@@ -147,51 +148,74 @@ <h1 id="title"><i class="todo">DRAFT</i> Exploration Interest Group Charter</h1>
 
       <div id="background" class="background">
         <h2>Motivation and Background</h2>
-
         <p>
-          The goal of Exploration Interest Group provides a platform to help W3C community
-          investigating emerging technology trends, analyzing their impacts on the evolution
-          of Web technologies, and proposing ways for W3C to collaborate shaping the trends
-          for the benefit of the Web users. The ways include organizing Workshops, publishing
-          Reports and creating topic oriented Task Forces etc., assisting the Web community
-          seeking innovative responses to continually strengthen the innovation of W3C and the
-          creativity of Web technologies.
+          The W3C Process indicates that a role of the Advisory Board is to provide strategic guidance
+          to the W3C. Analogous to Process Document management, the Advisory Board recognized that there
+          is interest among the broader Membership for these discussions and encouraged the creation of a
+          dedicated Interest Group for ongoing strategic conversations.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          The goal is to provide a platform to help W3C (including the W3C team) investigating emerging
+          technology trends, analyzing their impacts on the evolution of Web technologies, and proposing
+          ways for W3C to collaborate shaping the trends for the benefit of the Web users.
         </p>
       </div>
 
       <section id="scope" class="scope">
         <h2>Scope</h2>
         <ul>
-<li>Monitor industry and technology trends that might impact the web;</li>
-<li>Monitor responses from the industries, SDOs (including W3C CGs, TPAC Breakout sessions, Workshops, Liaison Reports), and Open Source communities on those trends. Work with W3C Team to invite W3C Liaisons to SDOs or other insightful SDOs experts, reporting back on potential areas of investigations;</li>
-<li>Prioritize the trends and propose organizing Workshops, publishing Reports or creating topic oriented Task Forces, for further elaboration;</li>
-<li>Propose chartering potential topics to the Strategy Funnel at the stage of incubation;</li>
-<li>Discuss how to continue improving the exploration and investigation process, proposing improvements to the W3C members and the W3C Team.</li>
-        </li>
-      </ul>
-        </section>
-
+          <li>
+            Monitor industry and technology trends and analyze their potential impact on the Web.
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            Based on these findings, develop strategic narratives to help the W3C community
+            understand these trends, the relevance of W3C activities, or a gap analysis where
+            there are no current W3C activities.
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            Provide a forum for members of the W3C community (including the W3C team) to share
+            updates with the Membership as part of broader strategic discussions (e.g., <a href='https://github.com/orgs/w3c/projects/97/views/1'>Strategy
+            Team's Incubation Pipeline updates</a>, <a href='https://www.w3.org/liaisons/'>liaison updates</a>, <a href='https://www.w3.org/community/'>Community Group updates</a>). This
+            is intended to complement other venues for updates, including both Member-focused discussions
+            (e.g., AC meeting or AB-led Member meeting) and broader community discussions (e.g., TPAC breakouts).
+            The value proposition of this Interest Group is to support deeper ongoing strategic conversations.
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            Provide a forum for members of the W3C community (including the W3C team) to seek in-depth
+            strategic input from the W3C Membership. Examples of who might seek strategic guidance from
+            the Interest Group: Community Groups considering transitioning to a Working Group; parties who
+            seek help resolving strategic issues related to a charter in development (as opposed to issues
+            for which another group such as the TAG would be more appropriate).
+          </li>
+        </ul>
       </section>
 
       <section id="deliverables">
         <h2>
           Deliverables
         </h2>
 
-        <p><i class="todo">Updated document status is available on the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/[shortname]/publications">group publication status page</a>. [or link to a page this group prefers to use]</i></p>
+        <p><i class="todo">Updated document status is available on the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/[shortname]/publications">group publication status page</a>. [or link to a page this group prefers to use]</i></p>
 
         <ul>
-<li>Workshops Proposal: propose to organize discussion on relevant topics that need alignment around the next steps for W3C, e.g., "generative AI", "Digital Identity on the Web";</li>
-<li>Reports: Create public analyses of trends that affect the Web, seeking rough consensus or presentation of competing perspectives for a report. The analyses would summarize the trending topic, outline the promise and pitfalls that are being discussed, point to relevant W3C efforts, and indicate the degree of consensus in the group on the value of the topic for the Web;</li>
-<li>Task Forces: Creation of Task Forces as W3C sub-community with the contacts, forums, procedures, and skills needed to dig into specific topics as they come up and build consensus analyses of their implications for W3C.</li>
+          <li>
+            Reports about industry and technology trends, their potential impact on the Web, and how W3C might play a role in shaping their trajectory.
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            These reports would be informative only and could be reviewed by the W3C community, and where there appears to be consensus, published as
+            Interest Group Notes.
+          </li>
         </ul>
       </section>
 
 	<section id="success-criteria">
 	  <h2>Success Criteria</h2>
 
     <p>
-      W3C Members and the Team finds the Workshop, Reports and the deliverable of the created Task Forces are valuable in defining, prioritizing, and organizing other W3C outcomes such as position papers and charters, etc.
+      Reports published by the IG inform strategic conversations within W3C, leading to visible activities
+      such as new Community Groups, improvements or greater consensus around draft Working Group charters,
+      W3C Workshops, AC meeting agenda items, TPAC breakout sessions, structured email discussions within
+      the broader Membership, and productive liaisons.
     </p>
   </section>
 
