đź”–TAG Update
9 May 2019
Daniel Appelquist
@torgo / @torgo@mastodon.social
https://tag.w3.org/Â (Current Work)
What is the TAG?
Special group in W3C chartered to:
- document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary;
- resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG;
- help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
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 6 elected, 3 appointed, 1 permanent chair (Tim),
1 staff contact (Yves)
Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) Chair, on Sabbatical
Daniel Appelquist (Samsung) co-Chair
Alice Boxhall (Google)
Kenneth Christiansen (Intel)
Peter Linss (Invited Expert) co-Chair
David Baron (Mozilla)
Hadley Beeman (Invited Expert)
Yves Lafon (W3C) staff contact
Sangwhan Moon (Odd Concepts)
Tess O'Connor (Apple)
Lukasz Olejnik (Invited Expert)
Current work of the TAG
- Pondering deep questions about the web
- Writing stuff: findings and other output
- Design reviews
- Joint work with other groups
- Play a role in cross-organization liaisons
- Developer community engagement
Design Reviews
The TAG's “Heartbeat” 💓
Requesting a TAG Review
Open an issue with us on GitHub
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Please request reviews at the design phase.
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Make sure you have an explainer
Make sure you articulate the user need.
What happens during a TAG review?
- One TAG member will own the issue
- We will likely invite someone to a TAG call or to join us at a f2f
- You will get live feedback from us in the github issue
- If appropriate we will issue a more formal feedback document
Where can I find the current work of the TAG?
Visit our page at https://tag.w3.org
Visit our meetings repo:
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings
(all minutes linked from agendas)
Client-side API Design Principles
Updating Security & Privacy Self-Review
Developer Outreach
15 Developer Outreach Events since 2013
Mix of panel discussions and unconference-style “summits” (https://extensiblewebsummit.org)
Berlin / Boston / London / Melbourne /
Seattle / San Francisco / Tokyo
~1000 developers
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Next event (maybe) at Reykjavik f2f, 21-23 May
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ETHICS!
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The web has an inherent social mission
For the web to continue to differentiate and thrive, it must put a focus on this mission
We already measure new web technologies against privacy, accessibility and internationalisation
Additional web technology ethical principles could help to buildÂ
- There is one web.
- The web should not be a detriment to society.
- The web must enforce fundamental human rights.
- The web is for all people.
- Security & Privacy are non-optional.
- The web must enable freedom of expression.
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- The web must enable researching the truthfulness of information 
- The web enhances individual agency.
- The web must be a sustainable technology.
- The web is inspectable.
- The web is multi-browser and multi-OS 
- People should be able to render web content as they want.
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Some Ideas for Web Ethical Technology Principles
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We're on github: https://github.com/w3ctag
Follow @w3ctag on Twitter
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