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To address the evolving threats to users’ security and privacy online, the W3C Technical Architecture Group and the Privacy Interest Group have updated the Security and Privacy Questionnaire so that developers of web features consider and mitigate modern threats to users as they design their features. The goal of the document is to provide a […]
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The TAG publishes ethical principles for spec authors and platform developers. A big part of our job as the TAG is to help spec authors with their ideas for a new feature on the web. We help them think about things like how their proposal could work with other features, whether it might have unintended […]
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You know those AMP URLs you get from Google search results and which often pop up on Twitter? Instead of https://www.rt.com/sport/… you’ll get https://www.google.co.uk/amp/ s/www.rt.com/document/… What you’re seeing is Google’s AMP project hosting content for Russia Today. This lets Google load the page during the search results, so that when you click on the link on […]
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Recently, the UN’s ITU has been involved in standardising and supporting a new architecture for resource identity and resolution, the Digital Object Architecture (DOA). Descriptions of the DOA indicate that it is designed to create and manage persistent identifiers for all entities in the Internet of Things, tracking and policing copyright, interoperable medical records, and […]
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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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Today, the TAG approved a new finding, “Securing the Web.” As the Web platform becomes more powerful, it also becomes more susceptible to a variety of attacks; someone who can pose as the server or modify content on its way to you can insert persistent scripts to track your activity, to modify what you see […]
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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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