W3C Public Newsletter, 2021-03-22

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W3C Communications Team

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A calendaring tool is now available for W3C groups

   16 March 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8959>

   Today we announced the Beta of a group calendaring service, developed by the W3C Systems Team. The tool aims to help W3C Groups schedule their meetings and share them with the W3C community. A new “Calendar” tab is now available from our group pages, lists all upcoming meetings a given group has scheduled, and enables in particular viewing times in different time zones (including your own), exporting and subscribing to an iCal feed.

   <https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/03/group-calendaring-service-enters-beta-test/>
   <https://www.w3.org/People/functions/systeam>
   <https://www.w3.org/groups/>

   This has been a long-standing request from W3C Groups to manage calendars of events, subscribe to them as well as easily view them on the Web, thus facilitating participation in, and scheduling of group meetings. You can read more in Jean-Gui Rouel’s blog posts about the tool’s discovery phase and about functionalities and future roadmap.

   <https://www.w3.org/blog/2020/10/group-calendaring-discovery-phase/>
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/03/group-calendaring-service-enters-beta-test/>

Patent Advisory Group recommends continuing work on Payment Request API

   18 March 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8975>

   The Web Payments Working Group Patent Advisory Group (PAG), launched in February 2021, has published a report recommending that W3C continue work on Payment Request API. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing terms.

   <https://www.w3.org/2021/01/wpwg-pag/>
   <https://www.w3.org/2021/01/wpwg-pag/report>
   <https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20200915/#sec-Exception>
   <https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20200915/#sec-Requirements>

First Public Working Draft: Open Screen Protocol

   18 March 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8973>

   The Second Screen Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of "Open Screen Protocol." The Open Screen Protocol is a suite of network protocols that allow user agents to implement the "Presentation API" and the "Remote Playback API" in an interoperable fashion.

   <https://www.w3.org/2014/secondscreen/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-openscreenprotocol-20210318/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-openscreenprotocol-20210318/#biblio-presentation-api>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-openscreenprotocol-20210318/#biblio-remote-playback>

W3C Invites Implementations of WebRTC Priority Control API

   18 March 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8969>

   The Web Real-Time Communications Working Group invites implementations of a Candidate Recommendation of "WebRTC Priority Control API." This API defines a control surface for manipulating the network control bits (DSCP bits) of outgoing WebRTC packets, and the queueing priority of outgoing WebRTC packets under congestion.

   <https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webrtc>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/CR-webrtc-priority-20210318/>

   Comments are welcome by 30 April 2021.

W3C Invites Implementations of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0

   18 March 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8966>

   The Decentralized Identifier Working Group invites implementations of a Candidate Recommendation of "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0."

   <https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/CR-did-core-20210318/>

   This document defines Decentralized identifiers (DIDs), a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID identifies any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) that the controller of the DID decides that it identifies. In contrast to typical, federated identifiers, DIDs have been designed so that they may be decoupled from centralized registries, identity providers, and certificate authorities. DIDs are URIs that associate a DID subject with a DID document allowing trustable interactions associated with that subject. Each DID document can express cryptographic material, verification methods, or services, which provide a set of mechanisms enabling a DID controller to prove control of the DID.

   The Working Group has also published a separate "Use Cases and Requirement document" that provides some background for the usage of this technology.

   <https://www.w3.org/TR/did-use-cases/>

   Candidate Recommendation means that the Working Group considers the technical design to be complete, and is seeking implementation feedback on the document. The group is keen to get comments and implementation experiences on this specification as issues raised in the documents’ Github repository.

   <https://github.com/w3c/did-core/>

   The group expects to satisfy the implementation goals (i.e., at least two, independent implementations for each of the test cases) by 18 April 2021.

First Public Working Draft: Post-Spectre Web Development

   16 March 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8956>

   The Web Application Security Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of "Post-Spectre Web Development." Post-Spectre, we need to adopt some new strategies for safe and secure web development. This document outlines a threat model we can share, and a set of mitigation recommendations.

   <https://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-post-spectre-webdev-20210316/>

   More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>

Workshops

     * 2021-04-15 (15 APR) – 2021-05-15 (15 MAY)
       W3C Workshop on Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range for the Web
       <https://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/Workshop/overview>
       Virtual Event

W3C Blog

     * Group Calendaring service enters beta test
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/03/group-calendaring-service-enters-beta-test/>
       16 March 2021 by Jean-Guilhem Rouel

Upcoming Talks

     * 2021-03-24(24 MAR)
       Accessibility standards for products and services
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/accessibility-standards-for-products-and-services/>
       by Shadi Abou-Zahra
       Online
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/venue/online/>

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