"Personal Data Store" work at W3C

Hi all,

Cross-posting this to our W3C-hosted ML and our Google-hosted one.

As you know the W3C has informal Community Groups (CGs) that are open to
everyone and formal Working Groups (WG) that are only open to paying
members.

I was at TPAC in Sevilla last month, and while discussing the proposed
Solid WG with people there, the idea came up that a working group should
not be named after a solution but after a problem, so "Solid WG" should
maybe be renamed to "Personal Data Store WG".

If that happens, it would be interesting to see if such a WG would pick up
work from this CG - in particular our remoteStorage spec, which is
currently a rolling Internet Draft at IETF but we could also use W3C as the
venue for its development.

I think there might be good synergies and eye-openers in comparing
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dejong-remotestorage/ and
https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol - for instance,
the question we discussed in
https://community.remotestorage.io/t/access-control-lists/105/8 : should a
PDS protocol include ACLs?

In the https://github.com/solid-contrib/data-modules project we're also
building synergies between Solid and remoteStorage.

See also my public review of the Solid WG Charter
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2023Oct/0003.html

Cheers,
Michiel.