🔖TAG Update
AC @ TPAC, September 2023
Daniel Appelquist @torgo@mastodon.social
https://w3.org/tag/Â | 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 emeritus chair (Tim),
1 staff contact
Daniel Appelquist (Invited Expert) co-Chair
Rossen Atanassov (Microsoft)
Hadley Beeman (Invited Expert)
Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) Emeritus Chair
Amy Guy (Digital Bazaar)
Yves Lafon (W3C) staff contact
Peter Linss (Invited Expert) co-Chair
Dapeng (Max) Liu (Alibaba Group)
Sangwhan Moon (Google)
Tess O'Connor (Apple)
Lea Verou (Invited Expert)
Current work of the TAG
- Reviewing others' work: primarily design reviewsÂ
- 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/
We're on github: https://github.com/w3ctag
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