The W3C systems team will perform software upgrades on several different servers on 18 May, from 18:00 to 22:00 UTC. A few services will be down briefly for system reboots:
Other services may be briefly unresponsive, but should generally remain available:
If you encounter problems using these services during this maintenance window, simply try again in a few minutes. If problems persist, please let us know by e-mail to sysreq@w3.org.
We have been informed of authentication issues on several W3C services affecting accounts that were created or modified between April 9th and April 24th, 2013.
Upon investigation a bug was found in our code that lead to encrypt the password information incorrectly. The issue has been fixed but unfortunately 300+ accounts got impacted.
We are communicating with the affected users who are advised to reset their W3C Account password using the "Recover Password" form at http://www.w3.org/accounts/recover