The WebID Community Group is a continuation of the WebID Incubator Group [1]. The Community Group will continue development of a specification for the WebID protocol, build test suites, document use case, issues, and grow the community of implementations.
[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/
Note: Community Groups are proposed and run by the community. Although W3C hosts these conversations, the groups do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff.
At the EID conference in Switzerland at the end of March 2012 I presented WebID and eCommerce, where I argued that commerce is based on an institutional web of trust, which if declared using linked data could allow the flourishing of eCommerce using WebID.
The WebID Group has been working hard over the years on developing a number of specifications, detailing a method to enable distributed decentralised identity, decentralised secure authentication, enabling among other things decentralised access control.
Joining should be a very easy three step process:
Get a W3C account
join the group and sign the light Intellectual Property agreement