🔖TAG Update

7 November 2017

Daniel Appelquist

https://w3.org/tag/

https://tag.w3.org/ (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.

5 elected, 3 appointed, 1 permenant chair (Tim),
1 staff contact (Yves)

...for now...

Tim Berners-Lee
(W3C, Chair)
Daniel Appelquist
(Samsung, co-Chair)
Peter Linss
(Invited Expert, co-Chair)
David Baron (Mozilla)
Andrew Betts (Fastly)
Hadley Beeman
(W3C Invited Expert)
Yves Lafon
(W3C, staff contact)
Travis Leithead
(Microsoft)
Sangwhan Moon
(Odd Concepts)
Alex Russell (Google)

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Photo Credit: @ThisNatasha

Current work of the TAG

Pondering deep questions about the web
Writing stuff: findings and other output
Design reviews (née “Spec Reviews”)
Joint work with other groups
Play a role in cross-organization liaisons
Developer community engagement

Design Reviews

The TAG's “Heartbeat” 💓

https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues

Requesting a TAG Review

Open an issue with us on GitHub

(live demo)

Some closed issues

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)

Finding:

Distribution & Syndicated Content

https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/distributed-content/

“[...] content platforms such as Blendle, Facebook's instant articles and Google's AMP [... raise] important issues concerning the primacy of URLs and origins on the web, and the ability for users to make judgments about the trustworthiness and provenance of information they encounter while using it.”