12/13 July 2010
Hosted by Vodafone
Call For Participation
Background
As the Web advances toward becoming an application development platform that addresses needs previously met by native applications, work proceeds on APIs to access information that was previously not available to Web developers. The broad availability of possibly sensitive data collected through location sensors and other facilities in a Web browser is just one example of the broad new privacy challenges that the Web faces today.
Security considerations and design choices for sensitive APIs were the topic of the December 2008 W3C Workshop on Security for Access to Device APIs for the Web (report). Following up to that workshop, the Device API and Policy Working Group was chartered.
Earlier approaches to address privacy issues for the Web, especially through policy languages, have not seen broad implementation in current-generation Web browsers.
This workshop serves to investigate strategies toward better privacy protection on the Web that are effective and lead to benefits in the near term.
Goals and Scope
This workshop serves to review experiences from recent design and deployment work on device APIs, and to investigate novel strategies toward better privacy protection on the Web that are effective and lead to benefits in the near term. The results from this workshop will provide direction and give input into ongoing and future technical work at W3C, including:
- the W3C Geolocation Working Group's work on version 2 of the geolocation API;
- the W3C Device API and Policy Working Group's work on assorted device and service APIs and their security and privacy considerations;
- the W3C Web Applications Working Group;
- the W3C Technical Architecture Group's recent and future work on a Web Application Architecture.
Topics for position papers may include, but are not limited to:
- novel approaches and architectures toward privacy on the Web that W3C should pursue;
- implementation experience with current generation device APIs;
- deployment experience of current generation device APIs from a Web Application implementer's and provider's perspective;
- implementation and deployment experience with current generation device APIs from a public policy and privacy perspective;
- policy considerations for the future development of the Web platform in general, and advanced APIs in particular;
- user experience and service design issues and approaches related to security and privacy technologies for the Web;
- social or regulatory issues relating to privacy as they potentially impact any of the above.
The workshop is expected to attract a broad set of stakeholders, including implementers from the mobile and desktop space, policy and privacy experts, and developers and operators of Web applications that make use of advanced APIs.
Participation Requirements
All participants are required to submit a position paper
by 1 June 20107 June 2010 (extended on June 1st). W3C membership is not required to participate in this
workshop.
The total number of participants will be limited. To ensure diversity, a limit might be imposed on the maximum number of participants per organization.
Instructions for how to register will be sent to submitters of accepted position papers. These instructions will also indicate a possible limit on the maximum number of participants per organization.
Workshop sessions and documents will be in English. Position papers, presentations, minutes and the workshop report will be public.
There is no fee to participate.
Expression of Interest
To help the organizers plan the workshop: If you wish to participate, please as soon as possible send a message to team-privacyws-submit@w3.org with a short (one paragraph) "expression of interest" stating:
- that a representative from your organization plans to submit a position paper
- whether you want to send one or two participants
- whether or not you wish to make a presentation
Note: Sending that expression of interest does not mean that you registered for the workshop. It is still necessary to send a position paper (see below), which then must be considered for acceptance by the Program Committee.
Position Papers
You paper must meet the following criteria:
- explains your interest in the Workshop
- aligned with the Workshop's stated goals as outlined above.
- 1 to 5 pages long
- formatted in (valid) HTML/XHTML, PDF, or plain text
Based on a review of all submitted position papers, the Program Committee will select the most relevant and invite the submitters of those papers to the Workshop. From among all accepted papers, the program committee will choose a small number of papers judged most appropriate for fostering discussion, and ask the authors of those papers to give short presentations about them at the Workshop. After the workshop, those presentations will then be published on the workshop home page.
Important dates
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 27 April 2010 | Call for Participation issued |
| Deadline for position papers | |
| 15 June 2010 | Acceptance notification sent |
| 22 June 2010 | Program released |
| 12/13 July 2010 | Workshop |
Workshop Organization
Workshop sessions and documents will be in English.
Chairs
- Dan Appelquist, Vodafone
- Thomas Roessler, W3C
Program Committee
- Adrian Bateman, Microsoft
- Robin Berjon, Vodafone
- Lars Erik Bolstad, Opera Software
- Kasey Chappelle, Vodafone
- Tom Coates
- Malcolm Crompton, Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd.
- Peter Eckersley, EFF
- Ian Fette, Google
- Marit Hansen, ICPP
- Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, W3C
- Frederick Hirsch, Nokia
- Cullen Jennings, CISCO
- Julie Martin, Mozilla
- John Morris, CDT
- Deirdre Mulligan, UC Berkeley
- David Rogers, OMTP
- Wendy Seltzer, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
- Tu Tsao, Google
- Hannes Tschofenig, Nokia Siemens Networks and Internet Architecture Board
- Mischa Tuffield, Garlik
- Rigo Wenning, W3C
Venue
The Workshop will be hosted in London by Vodafone. More detailed venue information will be made available in due course.
Deliverables
Position papers, agenda, accepted presentations, and report will also be published online.