Re: IWA BG Agenda Request : 30th June

Hi Johnny,

I've been trying hard from the get go to get more people and groups involved, particularly browser vendors. For my part I own and run a technology company supplying publishers, advertisers, ad tech anoung other sectors.

Let's setup a call tomorrow and talk through specific issues so we can summarise them for the group on Tuesday. If that doesn't work can you provide the key concerns via email.

The document captures a lot of existing work from many groups. The separate questionnaire covers interoperability, choice, access ability, and accountability.

Thanks,

James

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Cc: Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org>; public-web-adv@w3.org <public-web-adv@w3.org>
Subject: Re: IWA BG Agenda Request : 30th June

Dear All,

I would urge a thorough and careful redrafting of the “success criteria” document.
https://github.com/w3c/web-advertising/blob/success-criteria/success-criteria.md
There are significant problems here. I am gravely worried by the current text.

The absence of essential stakeholders from the drafting process also raises concerns. The group involved is overwhelmingly conventional adtech companies, not advertisers, publishers, or (non-adtech industry) privacy specialists, etc.

At the very least, it seems to me that civil society should be involved in drafting a text like this.

Johnny


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On Sat 27 Jun 2020 at 21:37, James Rosewell <james@51degrees.com<mailto:james@51degrees.com>> wrote:
Hi Wendy,

Contributors and I have updated the Success Criteria document[1] to address the feedback provided during the meeting of 23rd June. As recommended we split the background information [1] from the criteria [2]. In addition the new document [2] adopts the question and answer style as used by the TAG Security and Privacy Questionnaire which was offered as a model example.

These documents may address the requirements participants [3] are putting forward before they can proceed with incubating various advertising-related proposals. I would appreciate the opportunity to review these changes during our 30th June meeting.

By agreeing on the method used to evaluate alternate proposals we will reduce the time spent in future meetings because authors will have better addressed the tussles that are already apparent.

This will allow all browser vendors to more rapidly adopt the technical standards to achieve the W3C's goal of achieving one web.

Regards,

James

[1] https://github.com/w3c/web-advertising/blob/success-criteria/success-criteria.md
[2] https://github.com/w3c/web-advertising/blob/success-criteria/interoperability-choice-accessibility-accountability-questionairre.md
[3] https://discourse.wicg.io/t/advertising-to-interest-groups-without-tracking/4565/34
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