Re: privacywg call for consensus: Considerations for Reviewing Differential Privacy Systems note draft

I support publication as a Note Draft.

best regards,

Ted Hardie

(And thanks for the additional color on this process; it is very helpful to
me as a newcomer)

On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM Nick Doty <ndoty@cdt.org> wrote:

> Hi Privacy WG,
>
> This is a call for consensus, to confirm the conclusion from the last
> Privacy Working Group meeting, that the Privacy Working Group should work
> on differential privacy guidance, starting with publishing a Note Draft of
> the doc,
> Considerations for Reviewing Differential Privacy Systems (for
> Non-Differential Privacy Experts):
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pE3p6TVsERPln00PLXj6j9rTdoG3PmiNHhv3NtXDtEU/
>
> Description of the Note Draft status in the Process:
> https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#note-draft
> Note Draft would not indicate that the contents have the consensus
> agreement of the Working Group.
>
> This would also configure auto-publishing of this document (as Note Draft)
> when updates are made, with ongoing review by the group and at least one
> formal review by the group around TPAC each year. And the Working Group
> could decide by consensus at some point whether it's ready to be published
> as a Note.
>
> Pete, as editor, and W3C Team can work on converting to appropriate format
> and creating a corresponding repo. (In fact, they can start that process
> now in any case.)
>
> I believe the editors have worked through some feedback already (via Slack
> channel discussions) but in any case publishing a draft and creating a repo
> would be a starting point for opening issues and pull requests through
> GitHub for more detailed further discussion of issues with the document.
> Work is ongoing, this isn't a call for consensus on the document as
> complete.
>
> Please reply on the list by Monday, November 17th if you support or object
> to publication of a Note Draft of Considerations for Reviewing Differential
> Privacy Systems.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick, for the Privacy WG co-chairs
>
> P.S. Our group doesn't have a formal process, a "call for adoption" as in
> some other bodies, to say, we're working on this formally. If Note Draft is
> a model that works well, we might also do this for drafts in progress on
> credentials and permissions. We could also agree that we're working on this
> but have it set up as an Editor's Draft, with a GitHub repo, and decide
> later as a separate step that it's ready enough for public review as a Note
> Draft. I believe some other W3C groups have used that as a
> call-for-adoption-like process, but there's no community-wide pattern yet.
>
> --
> Nick Doty | https://npdoty.name
> Senior Technologist
> Center for Democracy & Technology | https://cdt.org
>