W3C announced today a W3C Workshop on Strong Authentication and Identity, December 10-11 2018, in Redmond, WA, USA. The event is hosted by Microsoft.

This workshop will look to provide an existing standards landscape, roadmap and potential future work for how strong identity and strong authentication should work on the web. A successful workshop will be how to align recent W3C specifications (WebAuthn, Verifiable Claims, Web Payments) and work that is ongoing in the W3C Credentials Community Group (DID, DIDAuth) along with IETF and ISO, as well as other existing community standards such as Open ID Connect, Oauth, SAML, etc.

The scope includes:

• Strong Authentication: FIDO, WebAuthn, IFAA, DIDAuth, OpenID Connect
• Strong Identity: ISO 29003, Entity Attestation Token (EAT)
• Decentralized Identity (DID): Blockchain / Distributed Ledger Technologies, Verifiable Credentials
• Federation: OpenID Connect, SAML, DID
• Credentials: Verifiable Credentials, JWT, JSON-LD, Entity Attestation Token (EAT)
• Requirements: Ease of Use, Accessibility, Internationalization, Security, Privacy

For more information on the workshop, please see details and submission instructions. Expression of Interest and position statements are due by 29 October 2018.

The Web Real-Time Communications Working Group invites implementations of two Candidate Recommendations:

• WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers: this document defines a set of ECMAScript APIs in WebIDL to allow media to be sent to and received from another browser or device implementing the appropriate set of real-time protocols.
• Identity for WebRTC 1.0: this document defines a set of ECMAScript APIs in WebIDL to allow and application using WebRTC to assert an identity, and to mark media streams as only viewable by another identity.

The Web Performance Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Device Memory. This document defines a HTTP Client Hint header to surface device capability for memory i.e. device RAM, in order to enable web apps to customize content depending on device memory constraints.

The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Scrollbars Module Level 1. CSS Scrollbars standardizes the ability to color scrollbars introduced in 2000 by Windows IE 5.5. This is useful when building web applications which use color schemes very different from the appearance of default platform scrollbars.

CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.