TAG Update
By Daniel Appelquist (TAG co-chair, Invited Expert)
See also the slides.
Transcript
So this is a very brief, just recap of what is the TAG, for those of you who don't know our work.
I'm Dan Appelquist, you can find me on the social web at torgo@mastodon.social.
And we're also on the social web at tag@w3c.social.
Um, yeah.
Okay.
This is the TAG.
A very fun and dynamic group, as you can tell.
Okay.
All right.
So what is the TAG?
The TAG is a special group chartered within the W3C Process Document, to document and build consensus around principles of web architecture, and to interpret and clarify those principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside of W3C.
That gives us a fairly broad remit, and I'll talk about some of the things that we do, just in one second.
So we have six elected, three appointed, one permanent emeritus chair, that's Tim, and one staff contact.
This is our list of current TAG members.
Myself; Rossen from Microsoft; Hadley, invited expert; Tim; Amy Guy, Digital, who is not at Digital Bazaar anymore, but a different association, I think, actually.
Yves Lafon, he's our staff contact.
Peter Linss, invited expert.
Max from Alibaba Group, Sangwhan from Google, Tess from Apple, and Lea, who's also an invited expert.
So, current work of the TAG, we review other people's work, primarily in our design review process.
And that includes evaluating things against our design principles, against the security and privacy questionnaire, against our new accessibility questionnaire, against our new, and we will be talking about later, Privacy Principles document.
And, so far this year, we've completed 48 design reviews, which I think is pretty good.
It gives you an idea for the cadence of work that we have.
That's new 48 proposals of new work, things that people want to bring to the web.
We also do a bit of work writing down the high-level principles of the web, the ethical web principles, findings, design principles, and we convene task forces when necessary.
And, we play this governance and oversight role in terms of reviewing new charters, and importantly helping to resolve formal objections in the Council process, and informing the technical strategy.
So I'll just, I'm gonna let you read this, because I don't wanna hold up the panel too much more, but just to say, we're currently still in a hybrid mode, and it looks like that's gonna be the long-term approach that the TAG takes, where we do one or two face-to-face meetings a year, and two virtual face-to-face meetings a year.
We've gotten pretty good at doing virtual face-to-faces.
We have a whole process around it now, with 18 breakout sessions that we run out across three time-zone groups.
If you're interested in learning more about how we do that, I would be happy to expound on that in detail.
We use GitHub, we use WebRTC for all our video calls, kind of a eat your own dog food" type approach. We use CryptPad for minutes, and we heavily use Slack. We're not using our mailing list so much anymore. So if you don't get a good timely response from us, that's why, on there. And that's about it.
