W3C Re-launched as a Public-Interest Non-Profit Organization

The World Wide Web Consortium: The World Wide Web Consortium began the year 2023 by forming a new public-interest non-profit organization. The new entity preserves our member-driven approach, existing worldwide outreach and cooperation while allowing for additional partners around the world beyond Europe and Asia. The new organization also preserves the core process and mission of the Consortium to shepherd the web, by developing open web standards as a single global organization with contributions from W3C Members, staff, and the international community.

Our Director, Tim Berners-Lee, noted: "Today, I am proud of the profound impact W3C has had, its many achievements accomplished with our Members and the public, and I look forward to the continued empowering enhancements W3C enables as it launches its own public-interest non-profit organization, building on 28 years of experience." Our vision for the future is a web that is truly a force for good. A World Wide Web that is truly international and more inclusive, more respectful of its users. A web that supports truth better than falsehood, people more than profits, humanity rather than hate. A web that works for everyone, because of everyone.

Wish they had a do-over

[OffTheLip]

I bet the W3C would like a web do-over going back to the early days.

Well done, W3C

[ciaran_o_riordan]

The W3C has indeed done fantastic work. With the new status, will they be more involved in policy work?

The EU is working on a new regulation on standard-essential patents. The legislative procedure is advancing on the Cyber Resilience Act, which makes it difficult to publish software (and serving a webpage with javascript seems to fit into that). And there's the issue of DRM (which shouldn't have been given support in the W3C standards, but what's done is done, let's look for how to improve the situation

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[Aighearach]

will they be more involved in policy work?

The legislative procedure is advancing on the Cyber Resilience Act, which makes it difficult to publish software (and serving a webpage with javascript seems to fit into that)

That is specious flamebait. So you're a right wing supply-sider who is mad that companies will have to spend money on security if they're handing medical data, or if they're a cloud provider, and you're hoping that by becoming a public interest non-profit, they'll somehow... take up your position, since almost nobody else agrees with your position? Why the hell would they want to reduce security?

Did you throw DRM in just to obfuscate your opposition to the Cyber Resilience Act? Especially since you say, "do

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[ciaran_o_riordan]

I'm obfuscating nothing. Here's a brief to the European Commission with my name on it:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/... [europa.eu]

Medical data is covered in the GDPR, cloud stuff is in the DMA, the Data Act, and hardware stuff in the Directive on Defective Product Liability. Those are all ongoing if you'd like to get involved.

There might be some things that aren't covered and maybe a CRA is necessary, but the current proposed text says you cannot publish or import software unless it follows the requirements of the C

What has changed?

[Len]

The World Wide Web Consortium began the year 2023 by forming a new public-interest non-profit organization.

How is this different? Were they a for-profit organization before? Did they not operate in the public interest?

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[byolinux]

They were a membership organization run by 3 universities.

Re: What has changed?

[Baloo Uriza]

In theory. In practice, they've been Google and Microsoft's bitch for decades.

The World Wide Web Consortium, please, first of

[Max_W]

all, make the EU cancel the "This website uses cookies. Accept/Decline" popup regulation.

So much time wasted on clicking these useless warnings. We got it. And this info could be included into the elementary education curriculum.

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[Waccoon]

They wouldn't need to show you that message if they didn't set a zillion cookies the instant you view the page.

The only time my web site puts that message on the screen is when you try to log in, because that's the only time it needs to set a cookie. But, hey, that's what happens when you run a web site that doesn't track your every move.

Re: The World Wide Web Consortium, please, first o

[Baloo Uriza]

Better idea: Stop rewarding companies for getting way overzealous with tracking and cookie use to begin with. The whole point is to shame websites into not collecting data that is of marginal usefulness to them but violates the privacy of visitors. The GDPR is a good thing. Companies collecting dossiers on everything that reads an article on their servers is creepy and not OK.