🔖TAG: Principles for the Web

Virtual TPAC- October 2020

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

Daniel Appelquist (Samsung) co-Chair

Rossen Atanassov (Microsoft)

David Baron (Invited Expert)

Hadley Beeman (Invited Expert)

Tim Berners-Lee (W3C) Chair, on Sabbatical

Alice Boxhall (Google)

Kenneth Christiansen (Intel)

Yves Lafon (W3C) staff contact

Peter Linss (Invited Expert) co-Chair

Sangwhan Moon (Odd Concepts)

Tess O'Connor (Apple)

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 4-day schedule comprised of 18 breakout sessions across 3 time zone groups

We use a combination of Jitsi.org and WhereBy (WebRTC-based services) for all our video calls, CryptPad for minutes and Slack

Open an issue with us on GitHub:

Early design review, Specification Review or
Dispute Resolutiuon

Please request reviews at the design phase.

Read our Design Principles.

Write an Explainer.

Make sure you have an explainer

Make sure you articulate the user need.

A living document that describes the current state of your proposed web platform feature, or collection of features.
Help facilitate multi-stakeholder discussion and consensus-building
Starts with the user-facing problem that this specification addresses
Intended audience: other web technologists who may not be familiar with the problem space you're addressing (i.e. not just the TAG)