As stated in its charter, the mission of the Web Application Security Working Group is to develop technical and policy mechanisms to improve the security of and enable secure cross-site communications for applications on the Web.
The group's primary work mode is via discussion on a public mailing list: public-webappsec@w3.org | Subscribe | List Archives
WebAppSec conducts a one hour, members-only teleconference every two weeks. See the calendar of events for the most current dates and times.
Use the W3C's Zakim conference bridge system:
+1.617.761.6200 code 92794 ('WASWG')
Participants in the teleconference are encouraged to please also join the #webappsec channel during the call. Connect to irc.w3.org:6665 with your favorite IRC client or use the web interface.
Minutes for teleconferences and face-to-face meeetings are archived here.
Technical issues and actions for WG members can be managed on the group's tracker instance. (some features are member-only, see the full tracker documentation)
Some editors use the WG's GitHub repo to manage spec text bugs and pull requests. (technical issues and feature requests must go through the public mailing list first)
The WebAppSec Working Group operates under a charter approved on 18-March-2015.
The W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent.
Brad Hill (Facebook) and Daniel Veditz (Mozilla)
Wendy Seltzer
(W3C Member-Only) See DBWG and IPP for a list of WG participants.
Members and the public interested in this WG's work may also want to follow the W3C Web Security Interest Group and Web Cryptography Working Group as well as the Websec Working Group at the IETF.