Technical Programming Update
North America member meeting, February 26, 2025
Philippe Le Hegaret, plh@w3.org,
Technical Programming(*) and Project Lead
Technical Programming Update
- Digital Wallets
- Artificial Intelligence
- Private Advertising
- Exploration Interest Group
Digital Wallets
Providing a better experience in exchanging credentials for government and financial services online, as well as regulation
(such as age verification)
- Identifiers:
https:, did:method-name
- Credentials: set of tamper-evident claims and metadata that cryptographically prove who issued it.
Digital Credentials API: enable user agents to mediate access to, and presentation of, digital credentials
W3C Groups around Digital Wallets
- Community Groups:
- Working Groups:
- Decentralized Identifiers
- Verifiable Credentials
- Federated Identity (rechartered on February 25)
- Web Payments, Web Authentication
What's next in Digital Wallets?
- Verifiable Credentials 2.0 becomes a Recommendation (Q2 2025)
- Digital Credentials API working draft
- DiD Methods Working Group
- IIW, April 8-10, Mountain View
- Global Digital Collaboration Conference, July 1-2, Geneva
- Challenges:
- mitigating the possible harms
- cross-organization collaboration
- supporting the upcoming ecosystems: conformance, vocabularies, etc.
Leveraging AI on the Web
- Users: user AI-enhanced agent, privacy, AI as a user, ...
- Publishers: copyright, ...
- Developers: AI as a developer, applications using AIs, ...
- W3C Community: W3C specifications used by AIs, ...
W3C Groups around AI
- Community Group:
- Working Group:
What's next in Artificial Intelligence?
Private Advertising
Supporting advertising with strong privacy assurances
- Ad attribution: actions (showing ads), outcomes (sales)
Example: ads for an item shown to a user on multiple sites and platforms, user makes a purchase at a certain point - which parties get credit for this sale?
- Ad targeting / selection: delivering ad to appropriate audience
Advertising in W3C Groups
- Community Group:
- Web Platform Incubator Community Group: Privacy Preserving Ads
- Private Advertising Community Group
- Working Group (launched in November 2024):
- Private Advertising Working Group: Privacy-Preserving Attribution
Up Next: Exploration Interest Group
Forum to explore and discuss emerging web-related technology trends
- Proposed Exploration IG
- Chairs:
- Heather Flanagan, Spherical Cow Consulting
- Jet Ding, Huawei
- Team Contact: Xueyuan Jia
- Expected to launch in April 2025