Fwd: Call for Participation: Web Applications Working Group Charter Approved; Join Web Applications WG

Hello WebApps,

Our charter has been renewed, which means every organisation has to 
rejoin and all participants nominated to the WG again.

If your organisation has not yet done this, ask your Advisory Committee 
(AC) rep if they'll oblige. If you're not sure who is AC rep for your 
organisation, drop me a note offlist and I can point you in the right 
direction.

Léonie


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Call for Participation: Web Applications Working Group Charter 
  Approved; Join Web Applications WG
Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:12:12 +0000
Resent-From: w3c-ac-members@w3.org
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:12:01 +0800
From: xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org

Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

The Director is pleased to announce the rechartering of the Web 
Applications Working Group:
   https://www.w3.org/2022/04/webapps-wg-charter.html

The group is chartered through 14 April 2024. The mission of the group 
is to produce specifications that facilitate the development of 
client-side web applications.

Please use the following form to join or re-join the group. The form 
will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
     https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webapps/join

Please consider diversity when proposing people to participate in W3C 
groups. Representation from a wider group of people, especially people 
from under-represented groups, is vital for creating web standards that 
meet the needs of the wider web community.

If your organization is currently in the group, please note that you 
will need to have it re-join the group as the new charter adds a new 
deliverable with licensing obligations under the W3C Patent Policy. This 
Call for Participation triggers the start of the 45 days grace period. See:
   https://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq.html#recharter

The Working Group chairs are Léonie Watson (TetraLogical) and Marcos 
Cáceres. Team contact is Xiaoqian Wu (for 0.1 FTE).

More information about the Web Applications Working Group can be found 
on its homepage:
    https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webapps

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Results of Charter Call for Review
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We called for charter review on 16 August 2021:
  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2021JulSep/0027.html

Thanks to the 21 Members who provided input:
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/webappswg-2021/results

20 reviewers supported the charter, including one who suggested some 
changes and one whose formal objection got resolved through consensus. 
There was one remaining formal objection.

Google suggested changes to the proposed charter, one on the end date, 
the other on the specification adoption criteria, which were applied to 
the charter:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-charters-review/2021Nov/0000.html

Disposition of the Formal Objection from 51Degrees (Director's Decision)

Objector 51Degrees states

“The charter references horizontal review on the subjects of privacy and 
security. The TAG is also mentioned as is the Privacy Interest Group 
(PING). The group clearly intend to collaborate with the PING who 
co-author with the TAG the Security and Privacy Questionnaire (SPQ). The 
SPQ takes a discriminatory position in relation to 3rd parties and needs 
to be amended.”

The objector proposes to remedy this by

“1. Remove reference to horizontal review for privacy, security, the 
TAG, and PING. State clearly that the group will not be subject to these 
reviews, the SPQ, and other documents or positions that direct readers 
to discriminate. [or]
2. Amend the SPQ, and other documents, to avoid discrimination.”

In considering the objection the Director first emphasizes that it is 
the specific content of technical or procedural issues that arise during 
horizontal review of W3C specifications that is of highest import and 
not the question(s) or tool(s) that may have led to raising an issue.

Horizontal review of all W3C technical specifications on the 
Recommendation track is one of W3C's core technical requirements. The 
W3C Process explicitly notes this in sections 4.2 "Content of a Charter" 
and 6.2.2.1 "Wide Review".  The objector appears to be concerned about 
the content of future privacy, security, and architectural reviews and 
the disposition of technical issues or business concerns that may arise 
from such reviews.  Carving out an exception in the Working Group 
charter to remove reference to such reviews is counter to W3C's 
mission.  Further, it is not the role of W3C Working Groups or W3C 
standards to favor or disfavor specific business practices that 
otherwise meet accessibility, architectural, internationalization, 
privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.

Alternatively, the objector requests modification to the tools used to 
aid in these horizontal reviews.  The tools provided by the horizontal 
review groups are the responsibility of those groups themselves. The 
purpose of these tools is to facilitate horizontal reviews; the tools 
indicate the sorts of comments that might be raised during horizontal 
review and help to set expectations before a request to review is made. 
A request to alter those tools is out of scope for the charter of the 
Working Group whose work will be the subject of those reviews.

The objector has argued in issues on the SPQ [1] that reference to 
“first party origin” is discriminatory.  The definition of “first party 
origin” cited in the SPQ resolves to the “same-origin” policy defined by 
RFC6454 [2].  The same-origin policy is a cornerstone of web security. 
While there have been discussions in other fora connected with the 
same-origin concept, any conclusions from those discussions would refine 
the interpretation of the SPQ without altering its purpose. 
Additionally, proposals for better terminology in horizontal review 
tooling could be made, discussed, and even adopted without impacting the 
charter of the WebApps group.  Concerns about the tools used in 
horizontal review are not sufficient to justify suspending work on W3C 
specifications by means of charter objections.

Accordingly, the objector's Formal Objection to the proposed charter for 
the Web Applications Working Group is overruled.

[1] https://github.com/w3ctag/security-questionnaire/issues/83
[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6454

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To see all changes relative to the previous charter, please follow this 
link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2020%2F12%2Fwebapps-wg-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2022%2F04%2Fwebapps-wg-charter.html

This announcement follows section 5.7.2 of the W3C Process Document:
    https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 4.4 of the W3C Process 
Document:
    https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#cfp

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philippe Le Hégaret, Project Management Lead,
Ralph Swick, Architecture and Technology Lead,
Xiaoqian Wu, WebApps WG Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

Received on Thursday, 21 April 2022 08:51:50 UTC