🔖TAG Update

AC @ TPAC, September 2023

Daniel Appelquist @torgo@mastodon.social

https://w3.org/tag/ | https://tag.w3.org/ (Current Work)

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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 emeritus chair (Tim),
1 staff contact

Current work of the TAG

• Reviewing others' work: primarily design reviews 
  • including design principles, security & privacy questionnaire, a11y questionnaire, and soon the privacy principles
  • 48 design reviews completed so far in 2023
• Writing down the high level principles of the web: ethical web principles, findings, design principles, etc...
• Convene task forces when necessary
• Technical governance and oversight
  • Play a role in cross-organization liaisons
  • Review charters
  • Help to resolve formal objections via Council process
  • Inform technical strategy

How does the TAG work?

The TAG holds 3 video calls per week
(two "breakouts" and one "plenary") + async work.

Hybrid: In April, we held a 3-day F2F in Tokyo. In July, we held a "virtual F2F" with a 4-day schedule comprised of 18 breakout sessions across 3 time zone groups.

We use GitHub for discussions, WebRTC-based services for all our video calls, open source CryptPad for minutes and Slack.

All minutes are posted to: https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/

Thank you.

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We're on github: https://github.com/w3ctag

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