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The mission of the Web Application Security Working Group, part of the Rich Web Client Activity, is to develop security and policy mechanisms to improve the security of Web Applications, and enable secure cross-site communication.
End date | 31 October 2011 |
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Confidentiality | Proceedings are public |
Initial Chairs | CHAIR INFO |
Initial Team Contacts (FTE %: 10) |
TEAM CONTACT INFO |
Usual Meeting Schedule | Teleconferences: Weekly Face-to-face: Once Annually, at the W3C Technical Plenary |
Modern Web browsers embed numerous security policies which are documented in a number of specifications, including HTML5 and XMLHttpRequest. These policies have proven to be inadequate for certain use cases.
The Web Application Security Working Group will develop one or more recommendation(s) to enable secure cross-origin resource sharing, as joint work with the Web Applications Working Group, based on the current Cross Origin Resource Sharing and Uniform Messaging Policy specifications. The Working Group will also develop a light-weight content security policy mechanism to permit sites to control individual control points within the HTML5 security policy.
To advance to Proposed Recommendation, each specification is expected to have two independent implementations of each feature described in the specification.
Specification transition estimates and other milestones
Note: The group will document significant changes from this initial schedule on the group home page. | |||||
Specification | FPWD | LC | CR | PR | Rec |
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FooML | Month YYYY | Month YYYY | Month YYYY | Month YYYY | Month YYYY |
BarML | Month YYYY | Month YYYY | Month YYYY | Month YYYY | Month YYYY |
Put here a timeline view of all deliverables. Note: In a version based on RDF, we can generate this...
Furthermore, Web Application Security Working Group expects to follow these W3C Recommendations:
To be successful, the Web Application Security Working Group is expected to have 10 active participants for its duration. Effective participation to Web Application Security Working Group is expected to consume one day per week for chairs and editors. The Web Application Security Working Group will allocate also the necessary resources for building Test Suites for each specification.
This group primarily conducts its work on the public mailing list LIST NAME.
Information about the group (deliverables, participants, face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, etc.) is available from the Web Application Security Working Group home page.
As explained in the Process Document (section 3.3), this group will seek to make decisions when there is consensus. When the Chair puts a question and observes dissent, after due consideration of different opinions, the Chair should record a decision (possibly after a formal vote) and any objections, and move on.
This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.
For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.
This charter for the Web Application Security Working Group has been created according to section 6.2 of the Process Document. In the event of a conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.
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