Start of refinement for a draft Web Authentication Working Group charter

Hello,

With this charter review notice, the W3C Team initiates refinement for a 
draft Web Authentication Working Group charter:
  https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/charter-wg-webauthn-2026.html

The mission of the Web Authentication Working Group is to define a 
client-side API providing strong authentication functionality to Web 
Applications.

We encourage early discussion of this draft charter in this public forum:
  https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/540

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

Section 4.2 of the Process Document [1] describes activities during 
charter refinement and the role of the Chartering Facilitator to seek 
consensus among those who provide feedback about the charter.

The W3C Team estimates that this charter refinement will last until 
approximately 2026-06-23. Check the Strategy issue for notices of extension.

If you should have any questions or need further information, please 
feel free to contact the Chartering Facilitator, Simone Onofri 
<simone@w3.org>.

This announcement follows section 4.1 of the Process Document:
  https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-initiation

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[1] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-development

Received on Tuesday, 26 May 2026 10:03:41 UTC