"Community-Approved Credibility Signals"

At this past meeting 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zegy2ASbsRtkz8vNVYUXHopZjjXbZweJ5Co8TEW_8w0/edit>, 
there was general agreement to move forward in the direction I suggested 
in my Monday email 
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credibility/2020Jan/0005.html>. 
Specifically, we’re going to aim for publishing a handful of definitions 
of signals that we agree are generally good (assuming we can agree on 
any). If this process goes reasonably well, we can revise and expand the 
list going forward.


Next week 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VvIMSa-vc7Wt6AYAhQ3MrcZTJvuW8kv-QaNWWgbU7Vo/edit#>, 
let’s try for formal consensus on a few signal definitions. Please 
consider submitting a couple candidates via email to the group. 
Proposals should offer a short name for the signal and provide crisp 
definition text, preferably in the form of a template for a sentence 
conveying the signal information. Multiple templates are okay if there 
are important variations in what information might be conveyed.


Please send nominations at least 26 hours before the meeting, so people 
have time to think about them and submit a proxy vote if they cannot 
attend. I’ll turn any nominations into an agenda about 24 hours before 
the meeting. If changes are made during the meeting, let’s follow the 
rule that people have 72 hours to object after any approval decision. 
There's a section on the next meeting agenda to briefly review W3C 
consensus process.


Here’s my draft title and abstract for the public document that will 
reflect these decisions, which I’m aiming for us to publish in 2-4 weeks:

    Title: Community-Approved Credibility Signals


    Abstract: Credibility signals are observations, made by humans or
    machines, which are used in deciding how much to trust some
    information. This document specifies some types of these
    observations which seem particularly useful in online credibility
    assessments, especially when assisted by machine processing and a
    network of people and systems making related observations. It also
    includes some guidance on how credibility data (that is, data
    expressing these observations) can be exchanged online. The choice
    of which signals to include was made solely by the W3C Credible Web
    Community Group and is expected to be revised periodically in light
    of new information.


Hoping that works for folks,

    -- Sandro