Vision for W3C: request horizontal architectural review and wide TAG review

[tantek]

こんにちは TAG-さん!

I'm requesting a TAG review of Vision for W3C, which does not contain any technical features, thus any fields below relating to technical features or technical implementation have been marked N/A.

The W3C Vision articulates W3C’s mission, what W3C is, what it does and why that matters, and the values and principles by which it operates and makes decisions.

• Explainer¹: https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2025_Priorities#Vision
• Specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/w3c-vision/
• WPT Tests: N/A
• User research: N/A
• Security and Privacy self-review²: N/A
• GitHub repo: https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/tree/main/Vision
• Primary contacts:
  • Tantek Çelik (@tantek), Mozilla, Primary Editor
  • Max Gendler (@mgendler), The News Corporation , VisionTF Chair
• Organization/project driving the specification: W3C Advisory Board
• Multi-stakeholder support³:
  • Chromium comments: N/A
  • Mozilla comments: N/A
  • WebKit comments: N/A
  • Open issues: https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues/
• Status/issue trackers for implementations⁴: N/A

Further details:

• I have reviewed the TAG's Web Platform Design Principles
• Relevant time constraints or deadlines: 2024-11-20 (28 days standard minimum horizontal review period)
• The group where the work on this specification is currently being done: https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/VisionTF
• The group where standardization of this work is intended to be done: https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB
• Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this specification: https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Project+Vision%22+-label%3ADefer
• This work is being funded by: Individual VisionTF and AB Members time

You should also know that...

This document builds on the basis of the Technical Architecture Group’s excellent Ethical Web Principles. It is not intended to supplant that work nor redefine it, but fit into the same framework and promote many of the same goals.

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[jyasskin]

We're going to need more time to finish our review. We currently have some draft points, which we're going to file as individual issues in https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Project+Vision%22, and then we're planning to find TAG consensus on how serious they are by Dec 5.

[jyasskin]

The TAG has filed the issues we noticed at https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/labels/Project%20Vision. There is disagreement within the TAG about whether w3c/AB-public#215 (comment) should block the Vision from advancing to Statement. There is consensus that it's acceptable to postpone the rest of the issues to a future version of the Vision, although of course we hope to get as many as possible fixed for this version, and we'll pursue that in the comments on those issues.