A charter for the Social Web Working Group

• From: Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
• Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 07:55:43 -0400
• To: public-swicg@w3c.org
• Message-ID: <2f253a00-b310-4743-8ed7-6e0dd8ba676f@prodromou.name>

So, at last year's TPAC meeting, we discussed chartering a new Working 
Group. Only a Working Group can publish new versions of a published 
recommendation, and every recommendation is supposed to have an active 
working group to manage it.

I'd like to propose that we move forward with a charter for an ongoing 
Social WG charter:

1. Apply errata to ActivityPub and Activity Streams 2.0 recommendations.

2. Make backwards-compatible, clarifying text for ActivityPub and 
Activity Streams 2.0. Not new features or functionality, but clearer 
explanations for some of the terse and/or vague language in both sets of 
specs.

3. Refine the recent CG report for ActivityPub + Webfinger into a 
recommendation.

4. Refine the recent CG report for ActivityPub + HTTP Signature into a 
recommendation, including an upgrade to RFC 9421, with backwards 
compatibility as a fallback.

5. As other new CG reports, like E2EE and LOLA, are published and 
implemented, refine the reports into recommendations.

I think this WG could work with a limited membership -- ideally just the 
editors of each document -- and work with consensus from this CG. So, no 
independent meetings, decisions, etc. 🤞🏼

Evan

Received on Thursday, 5 September 2024 11:55:47 UTC