Community & Business Groups

The CSS Syntactic Sugar Community Group at the W3C does not define new functionality or behavior for Cascading Stylesheets modules. It merely documents “extras” that expand in systematic ways to existing features, e.g. premultiplied units, shorthand keywords, property aliases, counter styles or named colors and page sizes. Its specifications act as public registries of tokens and identifiers that the CSS and SVG WGs may later adopt verbatim or define in a compatible way. Preprocessors can therefore safely adopt them.

This community group is equivalent to the loose "Open Cloud Mesh" collaboration which started at individual vendors such as https://oc.owncloud.com/opencloudmesh.html, then moved to Géant https://wiki.geant.org/display/OCM/Open+Cloud+Mesh and most recently found a home within the CS3 community https://github.com/cs3org/OCM-API As of september 2023, work on OCM is co-funded by NLnet, CERN, and individual implementers. By creating this W3C CG we want to make our ongoing work more visible to the wider web standards community.

To further strengthen internet security, it is recommended that a new group is formed. This group would focus on bringing together both existing and new methods, techniques, and standards for verifying, authenticating, authorizing, and non-repudiation of persons, subjects, resources, and contents. By doing so, users would have a better understanding and could easily identify whether they are on a phishing website of their bank or not. This would significantly improve internet security and give users a greater sense of security when using the internet.