W3CPublic Policy Page

1. Introduction

The Web's success is drawing attention from outside its immediate technical and user community. Consequently the Web is now at the center of a number of policy debates. While the W3C is not a lobbying organization, we are still presented with a number of issues and challenges with respect to policy and the law -- particularly within an international context.

2. Current Activities

The main activities in the Policy area are pursued in the Security Activity and the Privacy Activity

2.1. Security Activity

2.2. Privacy Activity

3. Historical links and things

Please see the W3C Statement on Public Policy.

Related Interest Groups (Member Only)

Policy Interest Group 
Security Interest Group
Commerce 

Policy Related Presentations

Social Protocols: Enabling Sophisticated Commerce on the Web. (DCSB, March 98; older version IMA, June 97)

Promoting User Confidence on the Web (Digital, Oct. 97)

Designing a Social Protocol: Lessons Learned from P3P (TPRC, Sept. 97)

P3P (Open Group, Sept. 97)

PICS Interview (ILP, August 97)

Platform for Privacy Preferences and Prototype (FTC, July 97)

The Intersection of Two Worlds: Technology&Society
Good Engineering under Policy Constraints.

Technical Constraints of Regulating Commercial Activity on the Internet. (Unisys, Feb 97)

Related Projects 

XML Signature Initiative 
Electronic Commerce 
PICS 
Intellectual Property Rights 
Platform for Privacy Preferences 

Policy Related Briefings

Relevant Policy Issues
(Content Selection, Privacy, IPR, Trust Management, Encryption, etc.)

Bonn Declaration Response

Whitehouse Response


Policy Analyst: Joseph M. Reagle Jr.

[email protected]
Webmaster 25 Aug 97

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