🔖TAG Update

Virtual AC Meeting - May 2020

Daniel Appelquist

@torgo / @torgo@mastodon.social

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.

 6 elected, 3 appointed, 1 permanent chair (Tim),
1 staff contact (Yves)

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

How do we TAG during a pandemic?

The TAG continues its cadence of 4 video calls per week
(three "breakouts" and one "plenary")

We have shifted to a "virtual face-to-face" with a 5-day schedule of half-day sessions to allow for different time zones

We use Jitsi.org (WebRTC) for all our calls

Design Reviews

The TAG's “Heartbeat” 💓

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

Requesting a TAG Review

Open an issue with us on GitHub:

Early design review, Specification Review or
Dispute Resolutiuon

Please request reviews at the design phase.

Make sure you have an explainer

https://tag.w3.org/workmode/

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

https://w3ctag.github.io/design-principles/

Design

Principles

Designed for spec developers

A place where we collect good practice that comes up in the context of design reviews

Gradually taking on principles from other sources

Refers to ethical principles

Updated TAG Ethical Web Principles

Each principle now individually linkable

https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/ethical-web-principles/

We use this in the context of design reviews

We reference this from our design guidelines

Updated Security & Privacy Self-Review

In coordination with Privacy Interest Group

https://w3ctag.github.io/security-questionnaire/

New Approach to Cross-Repo Issues Tracking

Part of the cross-w3c approach to horizontal review

Allows us to close our design review issues and still keep track of open issues we've raised in others' repos

https://w3c.github.io/horizontal-issue-tracker/?repo=w3ctag%2Ftracking-issues

Thank you.

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