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Hello W3C Friends and Web Community! Today I’m proud to announce that the TAG Privacy Principles Task Force, initiated last year, has released a first public working draft of the Privacy Principles. The TAG consensus is that privacy is one of the ethical values that underpin the web. The Privacy Principles document sets out a […]
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Greetings W3C friends. The TAG recently held a virtual face to face meeting and I’m writing to give you an update on our activities and some of the outputs of this meeting. We updated the Ethical Web Principles with some additional text in the intro around harmful patterns. We also have made some adjustments to […]
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The TAG has been engaging with the developer community through evening meetups and longer “summit” events. We’ve so far run three “extensible web summit” events, two in San Francisco and one in Berlin, Our next face-to-face meeting is coming up in Melbourne in January 2016 and we thought we’d take advantage of this opportunity to meet and […]
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At the recent W3C TPAC meeting the TAG convened a special session to discuss, among other things, Cory Doctorow’s call for a “non-agression covenant.” The concern Cory has voiced is related to the unintended consequences of certain pieces of legislation which have had a chilling effect on security research on software. Although Cory’s concerns have mostly […]
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The Technical Architecture Group normally holds an election every year for seats that have come to the end of their elected terms. However, under certain circumstances, the TAG must run a special election (sometimes referred to as a by-election). Such a special election is now taking place, to fill the vacated seat of David Herman […]
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By design, five of the participants on the TAG are elected by the members of W3C. That means that the membership of W3C have a direct influence over the composition of the TAG and therefore over its technical direction, priorities and mandate. In practice, this has meant that in the past couple of years we have […]
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[Post amended to further elaborate on how the Report Card fits into the rest of the TAG’s Work] The TAG is chartered to work on the architecture of the web. As the Web continues to evolves from a Web documents to a Web of distributed applications, and as Javascript programming has become such an important part […]
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The TAG will be holding a developer meetup along side of our next face-to-face meeting in Cambridge, Mass. The event will be in the evening of the 22nd of July, will be hosted by Akamai and organized by the BostonJS meetup group. Thanks to both Akamai and BostonJS for helping us out! As with our […]
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The battle for web security and privacy is fought at many levels. Sometimes common practice in web application design can lead to data leakage with untended consequences for users. A good example of this came up recently where confidential files shared through common web-based document sharing services were being exposed unintentionaly to third parties because […]
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On April 4th, with the much-appreciated help and support of Adobe Systems, the TAG organized an event in San Francisco called the Extensible Web Summit. As I wrote before the event, the intention was to bring together web developers and web platform developers from the local area to discuss upcoming, in-development web platform technologies and standards […]
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