Advance Notice: Working in progress on a Solid Working Group Charter

Hello,

This is an advance notice that the W3C Team and Solid Community Group 
[1] participants are currently working on a charter for the Solid 
Working Group, with a primary mission to standardize the Solid Protocol 
and its use of associated data interoperability and authentication 
schemes. This effort will culminate in open standards that can be used 
by developers of servers and applications to continue to build a rich 
ecosystem that returns control of data back to users.

The Solid Community Group has been incubating Technical Reports [2] 
since 2018 towards that end: to describe the interoperability between 
different classes of products by using Web communication protocols, 
global identifiers, authentication and authorization mechanisms, data 
formats and shapes, notifications, and query interfaces. The wider Solid 
community has developed a suite of implementations, tools, and libraries 
[3] for developers, as well as applications for users [4].

The draft charter under development is at:
     https://solid.github.io/solid-wg-charter/charter/

We welcome your feedback. If you wish to make your comments public, 
please use GitHub issues:
    https://github.com/solid/solid-wg-charter/issues

W3C Members may also discuss on the member-confidential mailing list 
<w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>.

Per the current W3C process [5], the final decision to create the group 
rests with the Director Tim Berners-Lee, who may delegate this decision 
to other individuals in the team (and has been doing so in many 
occasions in the past). Being also affiliated with Inrupt [6], a member 
company with a strong interest in Solid, and in order to avoid any 
conflict of interest, Tim Berners-Lee has agreed to preemptively and 
entirely delegate the decisions regarding this charter proposal.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Pierre-Antoine Champin at <pierre-antoine@w3.org>.

This announcement follows section 4.1 of the W3C Process Document:
    https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#WGCharterDevelopment

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philippe Le Hégaret, Project Management and Strategy Lead,
Pierre-Antoine Champin, Data Strategist;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/solid/
[2] https://solidproject.org/TR/
[3] https://solidproject.org/developers/tools/
[4] https://solidproject.org/apps
[5] https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/
[6] https://www.inrupt.com/

Received on Wednesday, 10 May 2023 13:06:13 UTC