14:08:41 RRSAgent has joined #sustainability 14:08:41 logging to https://www.w3.org/2022/09/14-sustainability-irc 14:08:43 Zakim has joined #sustainability 14:13:42 Meeting: Sustainability for the Web and W3C - TPAC 2022 breakout 14:13:46 Chair: Nick_Doty, Tantek_Çelik 14:13:48 Agenda: https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/d0d7a1bf-a7b4-4930-bf9e-c66069d9c1f9#agenda 14:13:50 RRSAgent, make log public 14:13:52 RRSAgent, this meeting spans midnight 14:18:34 RRSAgent, stay 14:18:36 Zakim, stay 14:18:36 I don't understand 'stay', dom 15:14:58 dom has joined #sustainability 15:41:40 AramZS has joined #sustainability 15:45:55 tantek has joined #sustainability 16:13:09 agenda+ breakout 16:28:32 fetimo has joined #sustainability 17:02:16 AramZS has joined #sustainability 17:09:26 tantek has joined #sustainability 18:02:13 tantek has joined #sustainability 18:15:49 dom has joined #sustainability 18:20:06 tantek has joined #sustainability 18:23:28 AramZS has joined #sustainability 20:15:05 dom has joined #sustainability 20:30:10 dom has joined #sustainability 20:35:12 tantek has joined #sustainability 20:53:01 AramZS has joined #sustainability 21:07:02 dom__ has joined #sustainability 21:50:17 AlexDawson has joined #sustainability 21:52:59 dom has joined #sustainability 21:58:28 jholland has joined #sustainability 21:58:48 tantek has joined #sustainability 21:58:51 gendler has joined #sustainability 21:59:01 present+ 21:59:13 present+ 21:59:20 tzviya has joined #sustainability 21:59:39 yoav has joined #sustainability 21:59:57 tidoust has joined #sustainability 22:01:05 jgraham has joined #sustainability 22:01:54 brwalder has joined #sustainability 22:02:03 dlibby_ has joined #sustainability 22:02:03 present+ 22:02:09 cpn has joined #sustainability 22:02:16 Meeting: Sustainability 22:02:19 AramZS has joined #sustainability 22:02:22 present+ 22:02:23 Present+ Chris_Needham 22:02:29 present+ 22:02:31 scribe+ yoav 22:02:34 mprorock has joined #sustainability 22:02:38 present+ 22:02:47 Judy has joined #sustainability 22:02:47 present+ 22:02:48 Date: 2022-09-14 22:02:52 present+ 22:03:00 igarashi has joined #sustainability 22:03:00 Nick: important ans timely topic 22:03:13 Present+ Yoav_Weiss, Mike_Prorock, Jake_Holland, Nick_Doty, Tantek_Celik, Tzivya_Siegman 22:03:19 present+ 22:03:55 present+ 22:04:07 spectranaut_ has joined #sustainability 22:04:16 ... background in privacy, but this is an urgent topic. Want to learn and see how we can apply to web standards 22:04:32 ... outlined goals we could work on as a community 22:04:32 Present+ Tim_Frick, Alex_Dawson 22:04:47 ... ientified areas for potential standard work and cover ongoing work 22:04:52 Present+ Dan_Druta 22:05:05 ... considering metrics that would enable other measures to take effects 22:05:22 ... Also measure the impact of the W3C meetings themseleves 22:05:40 ... wanted to talk about working mode about how we talk about sustainability in W3C 22:05:48 maybe horizontal reviews 22:06:05 ... A topic that has come up at multiple meetings and TPACs 22:06:20 tantek: one of Mozilla env champions 22:06:40 ... been 3 years since TPAC 2019, some discussions there 22:06:49 ... had an AC meeting session this past spring 22:06:50 yes! remote meetings has been such a promising way to mitigate our direct carbon emissions impacts 22:06:55 ... virtual session in 2021 22:07:02 Present+ Phil_Archer 22:07:11 ... The TAG has included sustainability as a core principle 22:07:24 ... Moving forward with the assumption of sustainability being a principle 22:07:34 ... If folks want to argue, there's the TAG issue 22:07:40 cel has joined #sustainability 22:07:41 Present+ Tatsuya_Igarashi 22:08:00 ... Created sustainability CG to create a culture and process of horizontal review 22:08:14 q? 22:08:23 q+ 22:08:23 q+ 22:08:36 DanD has joined #sustainability 22:08:38 ... In addition to horizontal review, want to allow folks to talk about our biggest impact 22:08:50 ... Need prioritization, so wanted to ask the group 22:08:52 q+ 22:09:04 q+ 22:09:08 q+ to talk about impact 22:09:17 ack jholland 22:09:21 Cornelius has joined #sustainability 22:09:23 present+ 22:09:26 jholland: multicast CG which has sustainability implications 22:09:33 phila has joined #sustainability 22:09:36 q+ 22:09:43 ... one of the motivating factors in adopting multicast 22:09:51 ... BBC report about network consumption 22:10:02 ... Can address a lot of that with multicast 22:10:11 ... Would be great for it to get more attention 22:10:26 DanD_ has joined #sustainability 22:10:34 ... large events take 10Ks servers to serve, and protocols can cut that down significantly 22:10:37 +q 22:10:47 ... RE the notion of tracking our own impact 22:11:07 ... worthwhile to build models, but the impact of the web can be more effective 22:11:30 ... don't want to discourage people from flying here, if it solves the broader problem 22:11:34 lgombos_____ has joined #sustainability 22:11:37 q- 22:11:38 ... need to be explicit about that 22:11:38 q+ to talk about the need to id effective mitigation strategies 22:11:41 q? 22:12:00 Nick_Doty: Our own emissions is not a substitute to other work 22:12:10 jholland: need to not be distracted 22:12:41 judy: few quick comments: was a session on sustainability in Q2 22:13:15 ... we had a strnger response from membership than any other AC committee 22:13:22 Jay has joined #sustainability 22:13:26 s/in Q2/at the W3C AC meeting in Q2/ 22:13:28 ... interest distributed across different topics 22:13:36 present+ 22:14:04 ... own emissions wasn't covered by the AC 22:14:17 q+ to propose that the Sustainability CG work in public by default, as well as sustainability at W3C in general, and that we provide that request to the AB to make that happen on our behalf 22:14:34 ... The hybrid meeting format can be used and help other orgs reduce their emissions 22:15:09 ... efficiency of standards - heard impressive stats of CO2 that can be saved 22:15:17 scribe+ cpn 22:15:17 q+ 22:15:22 ack judy 22:15:34 Alex looks like he wants to queue but I don't remember how to queue someone else? 22:15:41 q+ Alex 22:15:51 q+ 22:15:52 ack yoav 22:15:52 yoav: I'm co-chair of Web Perf WG. I've thought about what are the lines connecting web performance and sustainability 22:15:58 Zakim, allow each speaker 2 minutes 22:15:58 ok, tantek 22:16:04 ... Looking at emissions, and different aspects of CO2 emission 22:16:15 ... a lot of it is consuption on the device, e.g., less JavaScript 22:16:24 +1 to yoav 22:16:26 ... another part is people replacing device because they're too slow 22:16:36 Thanks Judy, can you let him know via Zoom chat mby? I assume he isn't on here. 22:16:51 q+ 22:17:12 ... one thing missing is everything server side. There's no way for servers to tell us how much energy was used. Could we make some voluntary standard, and later some enforcement mechanism 22:17:30 npdoty: Is that something clients may potentially want to expose? 22:18:05 yoav: Haven't brought it up in Web Perf WG, hope to this week. It could be interesting for clients to surface, e.g., a sustainability mode, similar to battery saving mode 22:18:23 https://www.w3.org/wiki/Sustainability 22:18:33 responding to yoav: the comments about developing server tracking of impact reminded me of https://www.greeningofstreaming.org/ which has started doing some work in this direction 22:18:37 tantek: We're going to have to liaise with other groups. We have a public wiki page, feel free to add liaison opportunities 22:18:43 q? 22:18:47 ack jgraham 22:19:03 q- 22:19:03 jgraham: speaking for myself. Informal chat about CO2 emissions 22:19:27 phila has joined #sustainability 22:19:38 ... improving the web can save a fraction of a percent 22:19:57 ... reducing carbon emissions is already incentivized 22:20:03 https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data 22:20:28 ... browsers gotten faster and more energy efficient, but sites got slower 22:20:47 ... one of the problems is that efficiency is eaten by more content 22:21:04 q? 22:21:09 ... smartphones are faster than they were, and every year total emissions of IT keep growing 22:21:14 https://escp.eu/news/reduce-your-digital-carbon-footprint-shape-greener-future 22:21:25 q+ to talk about incentives 22:21:28 ... the scale of the problem requires more than simple choices and optimizations 22:21:59 ... if we can't get the web running on renewable/nuclear power, than any of the other things won't work 22:22:08 Philip has joined #sustainability 22:22:20 ... pretty clear how to make electricity sustainable 22:22:57 ... web has to run on renewable energy 22:23:11 ... anything less than doesn't support the solutions 22:23:28 ... we do not know how to make flying sustainable 22:23:28 q? 22:23:43 q- 22:24:15 ... we don't know that video calls can replace flying. Don't know if this is something the W3C should have an opinion on this 22:24:28 ... dominated by system effects and we need to look at those 22:24:36 help 22:24:39 ack tzviya 22:24:39 tzviya, you wanted to talk about impact 22:25:11 tzviya: in terms of impact, we've heard about floors and ceilings in the past RE compliance 22:25:34 ... Need to have something obtainable - e.g. only renewables may be hard to get to 22:25:50 ... We can talk about how this improves performance and a11y 22:26:07 ... horizontal review doesn't work unless it's something people implement themselves 22:26:11 q? 22:26:15 ack mprorock 22:26:45 mprorock: work directly in sustainability. measure data on this 22:26:58 ... confirm scientifically a lot 22:27:13 ... Can do a lot of feel-good things, or tackle the real world problems 22:27:30 ... Maybe can start help define how to describe the data for that 22:27:51 ... customers in agriculture - how can we measure pesticide, gas, etc 22:28:10 ... if we can do that in a standardized way and get everyone on board, can save 20% 22:28:34 ... past the point of no return, we'll face consequences 22:28:51 q? 22:28:56 ... we can find ways to tie verifiable creds and enable real people mitigate real impact 22:29:20 ... can we facilitate people that actually solve this problem 22:29:21 ack DanD_ 22:29:45 DanD_: thrown off by the diff between title and conversation 22:30:08 ... relying on the UN 17 goals. You're talking about number 13 22:30:15 q+ to talk about certification 22:30:21 ... would be useful to align to those targets 22:30:36 https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13 22:30:52 +1 aram 22:30:53 ... sustainability goals are beyond energy efficiency 22:31:44 ack aram 22:31:44 AramZS, you wanted to talk about the need to id effective mitigation strategies 22:32:06 AramZS: lot of desire to visibly do something about this on the brand level 22:32:13 I also think we could consider other sustainability goals too! energy efficiency and climate change is an urgent need, but doesn't need to be the only topic we discuss, if there is interest in doing that work 22:32:19 ... general goal to demonstrate sustainability 22:32:28 ... clear interest in spending money on this desire 22:32:45 ... big concern - a lot of room for charlatans to step in 22:32:59 ... not a sustainability person, so can't assess solutions 22:33:04 ... need good metrics 22:33:18 +1 judy 22:33:27 ... every measurement framework needs a solutions framework - generate a report 22:33:38 q+ to talk about DPPs 22:33:53 ... A lot of the solutions are focused on carbon credits or planting trees 22:34:09 ... doesn't seem to be an effective way to go 22:34:14 q+ 22:34:27 ... In ad tech, there's a lot of data we could use and say that a solution doesn't help 22:34:37 ack tantek (IRC) 22:34:48 ack tantek 22:34:48 tantek, you wanted to propose that the Sustainability CG work in public by default, as well as sustainability at W3C in general, and that we provide that request to the AB to make 22:34:51 ... that happen on our behalf 22:34:53 tantek: proposal - wanted to get a series of next steps 22:34:56 For those interested, here's my opening research into carbon offsets https://context.center/topics/carbon-offsets/ 22:35:25 ... agree to work in public by default - want to make a request to the AB to make that happen 22:35:28 +1 22:35:33 +1 22:35:39 +1 22:35:42 +1 22:35:46 annette_g has joined #sustainability 22:35:47 Proposed: Sustainability CG work in public by default, as well as sustainability at W3C in general, and that we provide that request to the AB to make 22:36:01 +1 22:36:02 +1 22:36:03 +1 22:36:06 +1 22:36:06 +1 22:36:07 +1 22:36:08 +1 22:36:09 present+ 22:36:13 +1 22:36:19 Resolved: Sustainability CG work in public by default, as well as sustainability at W3C in general, and that we provide that request to the AB to make 22:36:48 ... at the AC open session, ethical web principles say "the web must do no harm" 22:36:54 q? 22:36:57 ... Need to not make the problem worse 22:37:04 ack me 22:37:53 per Tess's presentation earlier today, first the web must not do harm 22:38:02 Jay: very complex problem. we consume a lot of energy 22:38:20 ... may be out of scope for W3C activity 22:38:59 ... very difficult to predict energy impact 22:39:28 q+ to note that our individual or even group actions can only do so much, to have the biggest impact from a systems perspective we need collective action including political advocacy, and ask how can we consider our work here in that larger context? 22:39:39 ack Alex 22:40:08 ivan has joined #sustainability 22:40:32 Alex: sustainability CG. when people look at variables that impact, we don't have a framework that counts all the variables that cover the end-to-end journey 22:40:36 Is the group he's referring to https://www.w3.org/community/sustyweb/ ? 22:41:19 present+ 22:41:19 ... user pathway and developers. Got general idea about how much CO2 is used, but never had a more global idea about looking into all the different variables 22:41:31 ... and here are the ones that we need to actually look in to 22:41:42 ... Don't know where our blind spots are 22:41:49 q? 22:42:04 ... need to build a map of the things we need to take into account 22:42:21 ack gendler 22:42:24 gendler: 22:43:06 gendler: news corp is new to the W3C. mostly consumers of deliverables 22:43:53 +1 on a principles document being really useful as a starting document 22:43:54 +1 to looking at policy/principles 22:43:57 ... principles documents really assist in pushing initiatives in corps. I propose a principles document which will really help CEOs understanding the problem 22:44:03 +1 22:44:12 ... principled writing helps make stronger internal pitches 22:44:14 +1 to a principles (and I think mprorock needs to help write it ;) 22:44:20 q? 22:44:24 ack phila 22:44:24 phila, you wanted to talk about certification and to talk about DPPs 22:45:01 phila: working with national bodies to put data on product conformance 22:45:30 ... in the EU, all products have tracability to make sure where they come from 22:45:43 ... both are about data being presented to end users 22:45:54 ... we're not good at exposing data to people 22:46:06 ... commercial world provides information about their stuff 22:46:12 Adding for the record (forgive my formatting if I'm doing this wrong), I intended to point out that both Ethical Web Principles and ML Ethics Principles documents have been used to make internal use cases at NC as rationale for hoping for a similar sustainability document. 22:46:24 ... more impact if we help people see what damage their consumer goods are doing 22:46:24 +1 phila 22:46:37 q? 22:46:42 ... datasphere is not recognizable 22:46:43 ack spectranaut_ 22:46:52 ... browsers should recognize schema.org 22:47:24 spectranaut_: excited that this is a topic of conversation. Igalia is trying to create a positive impact on env 22:47:50 ... struggling with questions, with no answers, but a bunch of Igalians would love to help 22:48:05 q? 22:48:06 ... fun to work on concrete stuff 22:48:07 q? 22:48:15 ack tantek 22:48:16 tantek, you wanted to note that our individual or even group actions can only do so much, to have the biggest impact from a systems perspective we need collective action including 22:48:16 ... political advocacy, and ask how can we consider our work here in that larger context? 22:48:54 tantek: talked about what we can do individually to prevent more harm. but so much we can do as individuals 22:49:00 q+ 22:49:07 ... gonna need collective action beyond W3C 22:49:34 q? 22:49:39 ... wanted to check motivation to do such collective action, including political action 22:49:39 ack Judy 22:49:47 q+ 22:50:21 Judy: Think it's almost a myth that we can't do policy work. If you do good work, people will come 22:50:28 present+ valerie_young 22:50:41 ... several orgs try to come up with metrics. Things W3C could do to facilitate 22:50:58 q? 22:51:02 ack mprorock 22:51:12 present+ 22:51:46 mprorock: work often on the policy side. If we can bring something concrete to the table - e.g. connect directly to the end users 22:51:54 +1 22:51:54 ... deeply rooted in what the W3C is 22:52:16 tantek: also connects to principles 22:52:38 s/do to facilitate/do to facilitate... but possibly if one jumps ahead too early on that, before having something good to point to, might not land so well 22:52:40 mprorock: distributed the principles docs across and they were well received 22:53:19 tantek: technologies to reduce energy usage 22:53:28 ... w3c impact on its operations 22:53:36 ... measurement 22:53:42 ... system effects 22:53:48 ... horizontal review 22:53:55 Can we ensure use of invited experts, for instance from the national labs? 22:54:08 ... Principles 22:54:20 q? 22:54:47 ivan: does measurement cover what mprorock and phila talked about? 22:54:54 q+ to respond to mprorock's mention of national labs 22:55:01 tantek: yes 22:55:03 ack annette_g 22:55:03 annette_g, you wanted to respond to mprorock's mention of national labs 22:55:25 q+ 22:55:25 q+ 22:55:33 annette_g: not an expert, but plenty people at the national labs are. Would see if someone is interested 22:55:39 q- 22:55:41 q- 22:56:20 tantek: wanted to capture who's interested in any of the areas 22:56:27 tantek: [system effects][horizontal review][principles] 22:56:32 [JudyB: I will continue working on scalability of a good hybrid meetings solution] 22:56:36 jgraham: [Principles][system effects] 22:57:03 rrsagent, draft minutes 22:57:03 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2022/09/14-sustainability-minutes.html cpn 22:57:07 rrsagent, make log public 22:57:12 [jholland: technologies to reduce energy usage, measurement] 22:57:31 RRSAgent, make logs public 22:57:39 RRSAgent, draft minutes 22:57:39 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2022/09/14-sustainability-minutes.html phila 22:57:46 mprorock: [system effects] [measurements] 22:57:56 gendler: [principles] 22:58:05 yoav: [energy reduction, measurement] 22:58:15 ivan: [measurements] 22:58:18 spectranaut_: [horizontal review] 22:58:23 tzviya: [principles] 22:58:35 AramZS: [measurements][principles] 22:58:44 Tim Frick: co-chair of the sustyweb group. Wrote a charter. Want to know how we can collaborate 22:59:06 [jholland: akamai has a sustainability commitment, if I can get access to a good standard for reporting usage I will push measurement within akamai and return feedback on problems with applying the metrics if possible] 22:59:14 phila: [measurement] (by which I mean certified measurements against defined methods) 22:59:35 JudyB: [Hybrid] Good hybrid meeting techniques, and sharing awesome research showing the scalable carbon savings from hybrid 23:00:04 -> https://www.w3.org/community/sustainability/ Sustainability CG 23:00:11 https://www.w3.org/community/sustainability/ 23:00:18 npdoty: [horizontal review][principles][w3c meetings and operations] 23:01:05 RRSAgent: make minutes 23:01:05 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2022/09/14-sustainability-minutes.html jgraham 23:01:17 ivan has left #sustainability 23:02:11 annette_g has left #sustainability 23:02:31 AlexDawson has left #sustainability 23:14:03 Jay has joined #sustainability 23:22:25 dom has joined #sustainability 23:29:36 brwalder has left #sustainability 23:32:05 AramZS has joined #sustainability 23:39:26 tantek has joined #sustainability 23:50:33 AramZS_ has joined #sustainability 23:52:12 JoeAndrieu has joined #sustainability 23:59:34 tantek_ has joined #sustainability 00:09:11 AramZS_ has joined #sustainability 00:10:37 are there minutes from the call today? 00:10:56 JoeAndrieu: yes: https://www.w3.org/2022/09/14-sustainability-minutes.html 00:11:21 Thanks! 00:11:26 yw 00:33:35 Cam has joined #sustainability 00:33:46 Cam has left #sustainability 00:57:22 AramZS_ has joined #sustainability 01:18:02 Jay has joined #sustainability 01:28:56 tantek has joined #sustainability 08:01:56 Judy has joined #sustainability 11:47:01 Philip has joined #sustainability 12:58:53 Judy has joined #sustainability 13:30:30 AramZS has joined #sustainability 15:27:49 spectranaut_ has joined #sustainability 16:03:09 AramZS has joined #sustainability 16:05:37 tantek has joined #sustainability 17:38:17 AramZS has joined #sustainability 17:49:28 Philip has joined #sustainability 18:01:34 tzviya has joined #sustainability 18:51:18 tante has joined #sustainability 20:33:28 tantek has joined #sustainability 21:14:55 dom has joined #sustainability 21:15:45 AramZS has joined #sustainability 22:02:14 RRSAgent, bye 22:02:14 I see no action items 22:02:14 Zakim, bye 22:02:14 leaving. 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