Security, Privacy, and Accessibility self-review Questionnaires.

Over on the process list, Anne kicked off a discussion regarding security
review of specs entering the publication pipeline[1]. Part of that
discussion focused on the potential benefit of a self-review questionnaire
that could help focus working groups on the important questions in areas
where they might lack expertise[2]. Anecdotally, this mirrors some of the
processes internally on the Chrome team for privacy and security review;
it's appealing to me as a pretty short bar that we could ask folks to
hurdle as part of the FPWD publication process.

Regardless of the policy discussion's decision about whether or not such
questionnaires/reviews should be a mandatory part of publication, it seems
valuable for the TAG to publish a set of questions which working groups
should carefully consider.

I've taken a stab at a security/privacy questionnaire: <
https://github.com/mikewest/spec-questionnaire/blob/master/questionnaire.markdown>
Steve Faulkner (CC'd) has done the same for accessibility: <
https://github.com/stevefaulkner/accessibility-spec-questionnaire/blob/master/accessibility-spec-questionnaire.md>.
Is the TAG an appropriate place to publish these sorts of things (as Notes,
I suppose)? If so, how can we help make that happen? :)

[1]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Oct/0191.html
[2]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3process/2014Oct/0195.html

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