Breakout Schedule
Find the list of breakouts that have been tentatively scheduled on Wednesday September 14. You can also propose a session until September 13 EOB, and add breakouts to your W3C calendar to be kept updated of possible changes in the program.
Sessions –
File System
- Proposer:
- Austin Sullivan <asully@google.com>
- Description:
Discussion of current and upcoming work on the File System Standard, including the high-performance Access Handles API.
- Type of session:
- Open discussion
- Goals:
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
Device APIs (Bluetooth, HID, Serial, USB)
- Proposer:
- Vincent Scheib <scheib@google.com>
- Description:
Low level device APIs in incubation address a range of needs in education, industrial, small business, and enterprise. Many peripherals people expect to work with computers have become available to web applications. Chrome, Edge, and Samsung browsers have enabled Bluetooth, HID, Serial, and USB. We will discuss the adoption & developer interest to date, answer questions, and discuss opportunities for the web to serve more needs.
- Type of session:
- Presentation and discussion.
- Goals:
Build awareness, share what has been learned, answer questions. Solicit working group interest.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
Allowing public resources to opt-out of privacy protections
- Proposer:
- Noam Rosenthal <nrosenthal@chromium.org>
- Description:
The abundance of privacy protection mechanisms (CORS, TAO & CORP to name a few) are great for protecting private user data, but make services jump through hoops when they want to serve resources that do not require privacy protection at all - public resources, such as free-for-all images on CDNs. This is an open discussion on how to make serving such content easier and more future proof.
- Type of session:
- Goals:
Get feedback on CORS, CORP, TAO and 'public static resource' metadata.
Reach a consensus on direction.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
- minutes
Common Impact Data Standard
- Proposer:
- Alicia Richins <alicia.richins@commonapproach.org>
- Description:
An introduction to the Common Impact Data Standard (CIDS), including an overview of the impact measurement space, the social purpose ecosystem and the challenges that CIDS is designed to solve. We will discuss the technical specification and the possibility of a dedicated Working Group.
- Type of session:
- presentation + open discussion
- Goals:
Gathering input and feedback on the standard;
Drumming up interest in our proposed draft Working Group Charter;
Identifying synergies with other W3C work/groups
- minutes
Accessibility at the Edge
- Proposer:
- Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, Lionel Wolberger, Manu Sporny, Ken Nakata
- Description:
A fearless overview of current and prospective edge technologies application to enhance accessibility (including those highly controversial overlays)
- Type of session:
- Brief panel remarks followed by open discussion
- Goals:
Kick-off event for the new A11yEdge Community Group; What we will address, what we hope to achieve
- minutes
Interop 2023
- Proposer:
- Philip Jägenstedt <foolip@google.com>, Chris Harrelson <chrishtr@google.com>
- Description:
Interop 2023 is opening up for proposals on September 15.
- Type of session:
- open discussion
- Goals:
Raise awareness about Interop 2023 in the W3C community.
Answer questions about how the process will work and what kinds of proposals are likely to be successful.
Open discussion about specific proposals anyone is considering submitting.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
- minutes
Children's Accessibility Needs Require Specific Consideration
- Proposer:
- Suzanne Taylor <Suzanne.Taylor@ThingsEntertainment.net>, Maud Stiernet <maud.stiernet@alittleliningcomes.com>
- Description:
We will given an update on the group's work and share the 6 main reasons that children with disabilities will benefit from specific consideration in next-generation accessibility standards.
- Type of session:
- 30-minute talk followed by 30 minutes for discussion
- Goals:
Provide an update on the work and goals of the Accessibility for Children Community Group, which has been active for about a year.
Share the 6 main reasons that children with disabilities will benefit from specific consideration in next-generation accessibility standards.
Share the main topics and success indicators that we will be exploring and refining in the group's full white paper.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
W3C Member Support
- Proposer:
- Naomi Yoshizawa <naomi@w3.org>, Giorgio Mazzucchelli, Amanda Mace, Rachel Yager, Wonsuk Lee, Xiaoqian Wu
- Description:
Introducing W3C member support activities to date and brainstorm what type of member support will be required at the new W3C to hear members' voices.
- Type of session:
- short talks followed by panel and open discussion
- Goals:
Discover the form of member support that W3C, a membership organization, should achieve.
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
Web Monetization
- Proposer:
- Alex Lakatos <alex@interledger.org>
- Description:
Very short presentation of the changes to the Web Monetization community specification draft and gather feedback.
- Type of session:
- Short Presentation and Open Discussion
- Goals:
Consulting W3C Members & gathering feedback for the new spec.
- minutes
Multicast
- Proposer:
- Jake Holland <jholland@akamai.com>
- Description:
Update on the Multicast Community Group activities: brief review of motivation and purpose, an overview of draft-jholland-quic-multicast and status on the aioquic implementation, and discussion of the path to browser adoption.
- Type of session:
- Talk followed by open discussion.
- Goals:
give a status update, gather feedback
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
- minutes
Sessions –
Same Party Federation (SSO)
- Proposer:
- Sam Goto <goto@google.com>, Johann Hofmann
- Description:
Short and long term, how should login to X with (an associated) Y work? e.g. login to instagram.com with facebook.com, audible.com with amazon.com, youtube.com with google.com and xbox.com/office.com with microsoft.com. Explicitly out of scope of the discussion: ccTLDs X/Y (e.g. login to example.ca with example.co.uk) and other FPS subsets.
- Type of session:
- open discussion
- Goals:
gather UX considerations (prompts? auto-grant?), API considerations (e.g. Storage Access API?, First Party Sets?, FedCM?) and deployment considerations (e.g. what's the cardinality of these sets?).
Improving the Web Developer Experience
- Proposer:
- Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, Kadir Topal <kadirtopal@google.com>
- Description:
A recurring theme in conversations with and surveys of Web developers is how less polished the developer experience is for the Web compared to e.g. native platforms. While some of this gap is unavoidable in a platform anchored in competing implementations of open standards, there is also likely room for a lot of improvements through better coordination of browser and dev tools providers. This breakout offers to identify such opportunities and will report on some early discussions around coordinated developer-targeting research (as was done with the MDN DNA survey) and increasing the understanding of the interoperable surface of the Web platform (as illustrated by the Interop 2022 effort)
- Type of session:
- short presentation and open discussion
- Goals:
Sketch a shared understanding of the current limitations of the Web Developer Experience
Identify opportunities for collaboration on improving the Web Developer Experience
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
Breaking the web responsibly
- Proposer:
- Greg Whitworth <gwhitworth@salesforce.com>
- Description:
Go over how User Agent breaking changes can have adverse effects on users due to the time needed for sites to adjust to the changes.
- Type of session:
- Talk + Open Discussion
- Goals:
How can the community work together to responsibly rollout impactful changes
- minutes
W3Cx and edX: Embracing Digital Partnership to Serve Learners Around the World
- Proposer:
- Stephanie Aliquo, Marie-Claire Forgue <mcf@w3.org>, Alan Bird <abird@w3.org>
- Description:
W3Cx is W3C's partnership with edX since 2015. This is where we offer MOOCs on core Web technologies. W3Cx’s catalog is composed of 7 MOOCs: in addition to the Front-End Web Developer program (5 courses on HTML5, CSS and JS), W3C produced “Introduction to Web Accessibility” (available until 31 December 2022) and “Introduction to Web Authentication” (new session to be launched on 8 Nov. 2022, in partnership with Yubico). edX/2U offer a leading global online learning platform. To date, we serve over 44 million learners with access to world-class education in partnership with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporations. Our people and technology are powering more than 3,600 digital education offerings—from free courses to full degrees—and helping unlock human potential.
- Type of session:
- open discussion
- Goals:
After short presentations related to the W3Cx program, the recent edX/2U merge and what is edX for business, we invite discussions on what skills/Web technos/W3Cx courses are missing from the platform for the benefit of millions of future developers and designers.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
U.S. Digital Accessibility Apprenticeship Program
- Proposer:
- David Fazio <dfazio@helixopp.com>
- Description:
Presentation & tutorial on the ne Digital Accessibility Apprenticeship Program, funded, and governed by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Type of session:
- Presentation, Tutorial, and Open Discussion
- Goals:
Demystify what Apprenticeship means, funding available, how companies can participate.
Present the newly established Digital Accessibility Apprenticeship, developed by Helix Opportunity with the U.S Department of Labor.
IP address privacy
- Proposer:
- Shubhie Panicker <panicker@google.com>, David Schinazi <dschinazi@google.com>, Jon Gibson <jongibson@google.com>
- Description:
IP address is a highly identifiable signal used for cross-site identity joining i.e. tracking users. How can we mitigate this privacy risk? Discuss relevant technologies
- Type of session:
- brief context setting, followed by open discussion
- Goals:
gather feedback on IP Privacy and relevant tech ideas
- minutes
Rich copy paste
- Proposer:
- Paul Libbrecht <paul@hoplahup.net>
- Description:
Explore when users exchange rich data through the copy and paste transfer mechanism.
- Type of session:
- open discussion and demonstration
- Goals:
Present what currently works to exchange rich content with the copy and paste mechanism where we-browsers are involved. Potentially with the support of some tools. We might be able to discover new paths and/or find out new expectations or dangerous situations.
- minutes
Architecting for Privacy, Media Accessibility and Product development: the video element
- Proposer:
- Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk>
- Description:
Think about architectural models for allowing user accessibility choices while maintaining privacy and providing data to support product development, with reference to the video element in particular.
- Type of session:
- Short talk and presentation followed by open discussion
- Goals:
Understand what architectural pattern(s) can allow user choices without exposing additional fingerprinting vectors or increasing privacy risks, while also providing usable product data.
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
From Open Standards to Strategic Innovation in Products and Services
- Proposer:
- Rachel Yager <rachel@fortunetimesgroup.com>
- Description:
Innovation is the key to success in today's fast-paced, competitive marketplace. To be successful, companies must continuously create new and better products and services. But how can they do this? One answer is to embrace open standards. This Panel Session discusses Innovation best practices that allow companies to share knowledge, ideas, data, and code. We discuss strategies to promote collaboration and enable companies to leverage each other's Innovation Processes. Expert Speakers share enterprise success factors of adopting open standards to speed up the Innovation process, creating better products and services faster.
- Type of session:
- Invited Panel Speakers with Open Discussion.
- Goals:
Innovation best practices and strategies.
- minutes
Policy Protected Data Access for Untrusted Components
- Proposer:
- Sarah Heimlich <sarahheimlich@google.com>, Maria Kleiner, Ray Cromwell, Bernhard Seefeld
- Description:
Discussion on a system where untrusted modular components can access private user data through policy protection and enforcement. Join us to play with prototypes and learn more!
- Type of session:
- Open discussion
- Goals:
Give an overview of the system through demos/prototypes and get feedback on our ideas for a policy-driven privacy framework.
Sessions –
Independent Interoperable Implementation and going beyond Candidate Recommendation
- Proposer:
- Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Nigel Megitt
- Description:
The W3C Process requires adequate implementation experience to be able to transition a document beyond Candidate Recommendation. Some of the past transitions raised concerns about how this should be interpreted. This session is intended to help the community get a better grip on the 3 Big Is – interoperable, independent, implementation.
- Type of session:
- open discussion
- Goals:
Continue discussion from joint session
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
Web of Things (WoT) Status Update and Demos
- Proposer:
- Michael McCool <michael.mccool@intel.com>
- Description:
Present the current status of the Web of Things in the WoT IG/WG and CGs, and showcase a number of application demonstrations.
- Type of session:
- Sequence of short presentations (status, then 3-4 demos)
- Goals:
Introduce people to WoT and showcase application experience.
- minutes
Open UI update on style-able & extensible HTML controls/components
- Proposer:
- Greg Whitworth <gwhitworth@salesforce.com>, Mason Freed, Brian Kardell, Daniel Clark
- Description:
One of the largest developer pain points is styling/modifying the content of the controls/components that ship natively with the user-agent. Open UI will provide an update on the progress on new elements and primitives to improve this.
- Type of session:
- Talk
- Goals:
Give an overview of Open UI it's goals and the progress over the past year.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
- minutes
Fenced Frames API
- Proposer:
- Dominic Farolino <dom@chromium.org>, Shivani Sharma
- Description:
A new web API for framing web content in a manner that's isolated from its embedder
- Type of session:
- Brief talk with slides, followed by open discussion and opinion gathering
- Goals:
Make the community aware of fenced frames/its API shape, discuss the difficulties in this area, and and collect feedback from other engineers & partners
- minutes
Sustainability for the Web and W3C
- Proposer:
- Nick Doty <ndoty@cdt.org>, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Description:
The climate crisis requires urgent action to reduce energy usage and carbon emissions and there is varied interest in systematic work to make the Internet and the Web more sustainable.
- Type of session:
- open discussion
- Goals:
identifying areas of potential work and making connections for active ongoing work
considering metrics for energy/carbon emissions of Web usage
measuring emissions from W3C meetings (and how to reduce them)
working mode for sustainable website development (sustyweb) and horizontal reviews of web features for sustainability (sustainabilitycg)
- minutes
W3C Accessibility Maturity Model
- Proposer:
- David Fazio <dfazio@helixopp.com>, Janina Sajka, Sheri Byrne-Haber
- Description:
Presentation of the W3C Accessibility Maturity Model First Public Working Draft.
- Type of session:
- Presentation and Open Discussion
- Goals:
- minutes
Page transitions in the browser (Shared Element Transitions)
- Proposer:
- Jake Archibald <jakearchibald@google.com>
- Description:
Chromium folks have been working within the CSSWG to give developers an easy way to create page transitions. We'd like to show how it works, and get feedback from implementers, spec folks, and other interested parties.
- Type of session:
- Open discussion, but can be a talk if the audience would rather.
- Goals:
Get feedback.
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
Antifraud Discussion
- Proposer:
- Steven Valdez <svaldez@google.com>
- Description:
The Antifraud CG will use this breakout for further discussion about ad and payments fraud on the Web that arises during the joint meeting of multiple groups on Tuesday; details to follow.
- Type of session:
- open discussion
- Goals:
Continue discussion from joint session
Isolated Web Apps
- Proposer:
- Reilly Grant <reillyg@google.com>, Penny McLachlan
- Description:
Some developers need stronger security guarantees than can be provided by HTTPS and platforms like Electron show that building apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript but packaging them like native apps is a popular pattern. Are there opportunities for standardization?
- Type of session:
- Short presentation followed by open discussion
- Goals:
Introduce the challenges being addressed by the Isolated Web Apps proposal and elicit a discussion about this and other potential solutions.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
- minutes
Element Capture
- Proposer:
- Elad Alon <eladalon@google.com>, Mark Foltz <mfoltz@google.com>
- Description:
API for capturing an Element as a video stream. Think HTMLCanvasElement.captureStream for an arbitrary type of Element.
- Type of session:
- Short presentation followed by open discussion.
- Goals:
Explain use cases and relationship to other capture mechanisms
Identify interested parties and their requirements.
Discuss the inherent security challenges and possible solutions.
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
Documenting the Web platform: Open Web Docs and MDN
- Proposer:
- Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>, Will Bamberg <will@openwebdocs.org>
- Description:
What Open Web Docs is and how we document the Web on MDN.
- Type of session:
- talk and open discussion
- Goals:
Learn about what Open Web Docs is, what we do, how you can help us document the web platform, and how we can help you get your work documented on MDN
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
Sessions –
VTT-based Audio Descriptions for Media Accessibility
- Proposer:
- Eric Carlson, James Craig
- Description:
Both Chromium and WebKit are prototyping support for text-based audio descriptions published as VTT. Come view a demo, discuss known issues, and share your feedback, opinions, and advice on this emerging technology.
- Type of session:
- Brief preso and prototype demo, followed by open discussion.
- Goals:
Seeking opinions on technology and implementation, including usability feedback and opinions from regular users of audio description.
- minutes
Web Components Community Group API and Specs Report 2022
- Proposer:
- Westbrook Johnson, Owen Buckley, Rob Eisenberg
- Description:
The Web Components CG will facilitate a discussion with implementers and community members about filling browser gaps in agreed upon features and moving forward with the next wave of top priority features.
- Type of session:
- open discussion
- Goals:
Getting APIs missing full x-browser support into the “Interop 2023” campaign?
Discuss how we can work more closely on high important capabilities: cross shadow root Aria, scoped registries, DSD
Expand implementer and developer partnerships around bringing APIs & specs to the browser.
- minutes
WAI-Adapt Candidate Recommendation of Content Module 1.0: Overview
- Proposer:
- Lionel Wolberger <lionel@userway.org>
- Description:
WAI-Adapt Content specification enables web content authors to support persons with various cognitive and learning disabilities, including users who need from more familiar icons (and other graphical symbols) in order to comprehend page content, require a simplified page in order to interact successfully, and/or communicate using symbolic languages generally known as Augmentative and Alternative Communications (AAC).
- Type of session:
- short talk followed by discussion
- Goals:
ocialize the specification as we are in Candidate Recommendation status
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
Web-based Digital Twins for Smart Cities
- Proposer:
- Kazuyuki Ashimura <ashimura@w3.org>
- Description:
Discussion on Digital-twin services for Smart Cities specifilally about (1) what is already done by whom (SDOs, vendors, governments, etc.) in which area, (2) what is still missing for expected Web-based Smart Cities, and (3) who and how to lead the discussion to resolve the gaps.
- Type of session:
- talk + open discussion
- Goals:
Identify the most important categories of problems to implement actual Smart Cities based on the exisitng and near future Web standards
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
WebViews - Usages & Challenges
- Proposer:
- Rayan Kanso <rayankans@google.com>, An Qing <anqing.aq@alibaba-inc.com>
- Description:
Present the findings of the WebView CG & have an open discussion on further use-cases and challenges
- Type of session:
- brief presentation + open discussion
- Goals:
Collect opinions & feedback on the report.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
- minutes
Maximising Back/Forward Cache hit-rate
- Proposer:
- Fergal Daly <fergal@chromium.org>
- Description:
BFCache provides a big performance win for navigation but there are obstacles to pages successfully being cached - Cache-Control: no-store header, unload handlers, in-the-wild telemetry for cache misses. This covers proposals for solving these.
- Type of session:
- presentation and open discussion
- Goals:
Get feedback on proposals for unload, Cache-control: no-store and not-restored reasons and any other ideas to improve hit-rate.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
- minutes
Where's the Web in Web3?
- Proposer:
- Erik Lagerway <elagerway@gmail.com>
- Description:
Web3 means many things to many people. Some see Web3 as a collection of existing technology that is used to scam many newcomers of their wallet contents. Others see this as a means to a future state where the world's transactions are made on a distributed ledger or blockchain. In this session, we will be exploring what Web3 means to those building in the space and where the intersection of Internet standards might occur, if at all. Think of this as an exploratory conversation with participants in the field and those that are curious about the future of this technology.
- Type of session:
- open discussion
- Goals:
Exploration
- minutes
CNAMEs as a privacy tool for the web / / Bounce Tracking Mitigations
- Proposer:
- Johann Hofmann <johannhof@chromium.org>, Greg Whitworth, Ben Kelly <wanderview@google.com>, Brian Lefler
- Description:
CNAME records have a reputation as a tool to circumvent resource-blocking and specific privacy measures. However, if used properly, they can help websites integrate third-party services without requiring third-party cookies, providing a great privacy benefit. We want to discuss how browsers could support privacy-preserving usage of CNAMEs while preventing potential abuse. Joint session with a brief overview of chrome's proposed bounce tracking mitigations following the CNAME discussion.
- Type of session:
- open discussion
- Goals:
Hear about developer use cases and user concerns, kick off an open-minded discussion on the utility of CNAMEs. Maybe get some agreement across browsers on next steps.
Increase awareness of bounce tracking mitigations and solicit feedback on the proposal.
Project Fugu 🐡: What we have enabled
- Proposer:
- Thomas Steiner <tomac@google.com>, Ben Morss
- Description:
A reflection of the apps that Project Fugu APIs have enabled, including a brief exploration of the present, the future of some of the enabling APIs, and our vision and dreams for the future.
- Type of session:
- talk, followed by open discussion.
- Goals:
Reflect back and look forward.
- Supporting materials:
- slides (PDF copy)
Trusted Internet
- Proposer:
- Takuya Sakamoto <takuya@fujitsu.com>, Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya@wide.ad.jp>
- Description:
Give short presentation of overview on Trusted Internet that makes arbitrary data verifiable on the Internet, discuss and gather feedback.
- Type of session:
- Presentation and Open Discussion
- Goals:
To find partners to discuss it with.
- Supporting materials:
- slides
- minutes
Topics API
- Proposer:
- Josh Karlin <jkarlin@google.com>
- Description:
Brief overview of Interest Based Advertising use case and the proposed Topics API as a solution. Informational. Most of the discussion focused on Q/A and driving thorny issues forward.
- Type of session:
- Short presentation followed by open discussion.
- Goals:
Learn about concerns from other browsers, look for places we can align.
- minutes
Document Configuration in HTML
- Proposer:
- Ian Clelland <iclelland@google.com>
- Description:
A potentially outrageaous idea to move (some) document configuration out of HTTP header space into HTML, in a way that allows document authors to set configuration for their own documents, while (hopefully) avoiding most of the concerns around XSS / injection that existing mechanisms have.
- Type of session:
- Talk followed by open discussion.
- Goals:
Determine whether this idea is too outrageous to succeed, or just outrageous enough
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