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A Dual License for the HTML Working Group

by | Posted in: HTML, Open Web, W3C Life

As of today, the HTML Working Group can publish some of their Recommendation-track specifications under a Dual License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY) and the W3C Document License. This change comes as part of the new HTML Working Group charter. The W3C Director proposed this permissive copyright in May as an experiment in […]
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SSL Europa joins W3C to promote a more secure Web

by | Posted in: HTTP, Mobile, Privacy, Security, Technology

SSL Europa creates innovative solutions for better security with mobile connections. Their objective is to tackle the challenges of privacy and data transfers from mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. As a security specialist for dematerialized environments, the company is the delegated Registration Authority of Keynectis-OpenTrust, the famous Trusted Third Party leader in Europe. […]
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Tracking Protection Working Group Progress

by | Posted in: CEO, Privacy

Here is an update on Tracking Protection Working Group progress: This week the group published new drafts of Tracking Compliance and Scope and Tracking Preference Expression (DNT). Today Chair Matthias Schunter announced a stable plan to reach Last Call. We are poised to announce new co-Chairs, replacing Peter Swire who announced last month his departure […]
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Enabling new types of web user experiences

by | Posted in: Mobile, Opinions and Editorial, Usability, Web of Devices, , , ,

There appears to be lots of detailed discussion of how the web can be improved but little agreement on consolidated goals. This document is an opinionated attempt to discuss how interactive web pages could be experienced, articulating the well understood direction, mimicking native apps, but also pointing out two new directions that native apps have little chance to solve.
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Establishing the Meaning of Do Not Track

by | Posted in: Privacy

Today, the co-chairs of the Tracking Protection Working Group released the group's decision on base text for continued work. In progressing toward a draft that could move the multi-stakeholder work on a consensus standard for Do Not Track forward, the group reviewed and rejected a package change proposal offered by the Digital Advertising Alliance and its supporters. The decision re-affirms the Working Group's mission to "improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking" in a consensus-based multi-stakeholder process, and takes a significant step in focusing the group's further work toward a consensus Do Not Track standard.
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