Save the Date: May 25-26, Federation and Browsers Workshop

Hello Privacy CG peoples!

This is not about the Privacy virtual F2F. This is about a different workshop being held next week. I know there will be overlap in interest; that’s actually one of the topics we have on the agenda.

With that, and apologies for the cross-posting...

The WebID project in the W3C Web Incubator Community Group (WICG) would like to invite you to participate in a workshop on May 25 & 26 from 10:00-13:00 PDT dedicated to understanding the implications of federation on the web in the face of privacy-preserving changes to eliminate inappropriate user tracking. To date, discussions about aspects of tracking, including eliminating third-party cookies, evolving the use of link decoration, potential protocol-level changes, and so on, are happening in several locations. Given the location of expertise on each of those specific areas, that is entirely understandable. What we are hoping to accomplish with this workshop is to bring all the communities grappling with the impact of browser changes on federated identity together to establish a common understanding of the challenges.

Day one will focus on presentations from browsers and large-scale IdP operators. Each IdP operator will have around 15 minutes to offer their perspective with 5 minutes to allow for clarification questions from participants. Day two will focus on questions and discussion topics that came out of day one.

The connection details, agenda, and notes for the day are in the WICG WebID GitHub repository, and participation requires joining the WICG and accepting the W3C’s Community Contributor’s Agreement. There is no cost to the workshop or WICG membership. We hope you can attend!

Heather Flanagan — Translator of Geek to Human
https://sphericalcowconsulting.com