If you like what the W3C is doing for the privacy, accessibility and openness of
the Web, you can become a W3C participant. Upon finding a W3C Working
Group[1] to which you think you could contribute, you can send an email to the
address of that WG's 'Staff Contact' explaining how you think you could help. If
the Chairs and the Staff Contact agree, they will ask you to join as an 'Invited
Expert' (IE). This does not confer voting rights but grants you access to the
meetings, relevant Git repositories etc. You'll need to sign a licensing agreement allowing the W3C to freely publish your contributions.<p>I say this because, at first glance, it seems like the only stakeholders with
any influence are W3C Members. The reality is that W3C is very open to
contributions from individuals, but just has had a constitutional framework that
makes things slightly more complicated for individuals, a situation which they are
deliberately improving.<p>As for myself, I'm an IE for the W3C in the Linked Data area, so whilst of course I do not speak for the W3C, I would be more than happy to answer questions here on HN about how the W3C works.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/</a>
I'd believe this- if it were not for the fact that Google is ignoring the W3C across the board. This includes privacy sandbox (fledge) and topics (floc) as well. Google can come up with good reasons why something that has negative impacts on the entirety of the ecosystem (except them), because it always ends with Google in a stronger position
The browsers keep circumventing them, so the W3C seems more ceremonial than a real standards body. In an ideal world something like the W3C would own Chromium, but alas...
w3c is completely irrelevant. <a href="https://whatwg.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://whatwg.org/</a> is the functional keeper of the standard.
Ok so Google ignores W3C on WEI.<p>But could someone else create a W3C proposal that could counteract WEI? It wouldn't have to implementation-specific but rather one or more principles drawing a line in the sand that shouldn't be crossed like what WEI is built to achieve?
WEI would be super valuable if it was targeted at corporate network infrastructure.<p>In those situations, enterprises have the jurisdiction and need to know who is connecting to their network.<p>Putting a technology like this into a browser seems to only benefit sites that monetize their content...