[groups] Initial draft adopted

At today's meeting, we adopted an initial draft of the Groups TF
report: https://swicg.github.io/groups/

Currently, it includes:

- an introduction to what a "group" is, and how it might be
distinguished from other usages of the term "group" across various
specs and prior art, with relations to other work and other task
forces

- some preliminary terms regarding membership and being a Member

- some initial user stories, with more to come -- our GitHub issue
tracker contains issues that need to be reviewed for user stories, and
any user stories missing from the report will be eventually added. (If
you have user stories to contribute that don't currently have their
own issue, please file issues for those!)

- potential approaches on how to become a member. Discussion in
today's meeting https://pad.w3.org/p/SocialCG_Groups_2026-05-28
revolved around questions such as whether followers and members are or
should be distinct, and what the properties of a membership are vs
properties of an actor. Information from this discussion will
hopefully be incorporated into the draft by next month, as well as
expanded rationale for the distinction and the properties.

This email is soliciting feedback and participation from anyone
interested in the work being done on Groups. Please provide any
feedback in GitHub issues and/or on this mailing list.

RESOLVED: adopt index.html as first working draft of TF report.

If there are any objections, please raise them within the next 2 weeks.

Received on Thursday, 28 May 2026 17:44:36 UTC