Bluetooth is a standard for short-range wireless communication between devices. This group is developing a specification for Bluetooth APIs to allow websites to communicate with devices in a secure and privacy-preserving way. In particular the web Bluetooth API focuses on minimizing the device attack surface exposed to malicious websites, possibly by removing access to some existing Bluetooth features that are hard to implement securely. Further, the API takes the approach of a user interface to select and approve access to devices as opposed to using certification and installation.
Most of our activity happens in our GitHub repository, with supporting code in adjacent repositories in the WebBluetoothCG GitHub organization.
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We’ve had some initial discussion on the mailing list, and there’s an early specification draft at https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/web-bluetooth. We’re looking for comments on the spec, either filed as issues or on the mailing list.
As the specification matures and gets some implementation experience in browsers, we’ll also be looking for an appropriate Working Group home for it.
The Web Bluetooth Community Group has been launched:
Bluetooth is a standard for short-range wireless communication between devices. This group is developing a specification for Bluetooth APIs to allow websites to communicate with devices in a secure and privacy-preserving way.
In particular the web Bluetooth API focuses on minimizing the device attack surface exposed to malicious websites, possibly by removing access to some existing Bluetooth features that are hard to implement securely. Further, the API takes the approach of a user interface to select and approve access to devices as opposed to using certification and installation.
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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2014-07-30 by Jeffrey Yasskin. The following people supported its creation: Jeffrey Yasskin, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Vincent Scheib, Michael[tm] Smith, Mounir Lamouri. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of its activities.
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