Welcome to the (public email list of) the W3C WG on Web Security Context (WSC)

Welcome to the WSC WG! While we expect a few more folks to sign up, since 
our first face to face meeting is coming soon, Thomas Roessler and I (your 
WG chair) have a number of logistics items to get underway. 

There are two email lists for us to use. This one, public-wsc-wg@w3.org, 
is restricted to WG members to send to as an email list, but has a public 
archive. It is what we will use for the majority of our email discussions, 
which means they are available for anyone to view. Our other email list, 
member-wsc-wg@w3.org, has a W3C members-only archive (which any WG invited 
experts can also see). That list will be for logistics and administrative 
details that we don't want to spread publicly.  We may also use it if we 
need to discuss member-confidential material that we get from other 
groups.  As a general rule, however, if you send technical notes to the 
member-confidential list, you're probably making a mistake.

The best web page for your reference as a WG member is at:
http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/Group/
That page is members-only. It has links to all our other pages, including 
our public WG home page <http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/>, our email archives, 
and the current WG participant list. It currently holds initial logistics 
for our first face to face meeting. While a few members (and potential 
members) have a conflict, we're going to hold our first face to face on 
the dates initially announced in our draft charter, November 14 and 15, in 
New York City. It's particularly unfortunate that the only date we could 
find for a face to face meeting this year conflicts with APWG's <
http://www.antiphishing.org/> meeting.  To compensate for that, I'm 
suggesting to the WG that we move our second face to  face meeting to a 
time slot as early as we would have made the first face to face if we had 
moved it to begin with; January 2007.

Every WG member, please "register" for the first f2f, even if you can't 
make it (there's an option for that as well), so we can be sure everyone 
is accounted for. The registration form is at:

  http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/39814/wscnov2006/ 

Please also introduce yourself on this list to us all, by saying a little 
bit about yourself, particularly whatever we should all know about you 
regarding your expertise and expectations around WSC. I'll send my 
introduction shortly. I look forward to working with you all. 

          Mez

Mary Ellen Zurko, STSM, IBM Lotus CTO Office       (t/l 333-6389)
Lotus/WPLC Security Strategy and Patent Innovation Architect