Organization,Group Name,URL,Focus,UASG Interest,Short Analysis,How to Interact,Description,Contact;;;;;;;; "W3C,Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG),https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/eowg/,Accessibility,High,""Wide range of actions on education, surveying, curricula, and similar initiatives."",UASG partnership can be established around combined outreach efforts.,""The mission of the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) is to develop strategies and resources to promote awareness, understanding, and implementation of web accessibility";" and to support the work of other Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Working Groups. EOWG is chartered to work collaboratively with other WAI Working Groups to support public awareness, understanding, and successful implementation of WAI guidelines, specifications, notes, and other resources."",""Meeting minutes: https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/EOWG_Meetings";;;;;;; Participation for Invited Experts (ML): https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/eowg/participate;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG),https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/,Accessibility,High,""Work performed by Task Forces";" most relevant to UA: Silver Task Force, which feeds into the Silver Community Group, to ?address current technological and cultural web accessibility requirements and provide a base for continued evolution of the guidelines?."",UASG partnership can be established around combined outreach efforts.,""The mission of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is to develop specifications to support making implementations of web technologies accessible for people with disabilities, and to develop and maintain implementation support materials.";;;;;;; Task Forces:;;;;;;;; * Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Task Force;;;;;;;; * Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force;;;;;;;; * Low Vision Accessibility Task Force;;;;;;;; * Mobile Accessibility Task Force;;;;;;;; "* Silver Task Force"",""Meeting minutes: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/minutes-history";;;;;;;; Contribution (form and ML): https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/commenting;;;;;;;; Participation for Invited Experts (ML): https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/participation;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group (APAWG),https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/,Accessibility,Moderate,""Work performed by Task Forces";" most relevant to UA: Research Questions Accessibility Task Force (RQTF), which ?works to identify accessibility knowledge gaps and barriers in emerging and future web technologies, and to identify research findings, researchers, and research opportunities to inform and fill those gaps where possible.?"",UASG partnership can be established around combined outreach efforts.,""The mission of the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group (APA WG, formerly part of the Protocols and Formats Working Group) is to ensure W3C specifications provide support for accessibility to people with disabilities. The group advances this mission through review of W3C specifications, development of technical support materials, collaboration with other Working Groups, and coordination of harmonized accessibility strategies within W3C.";;;;;;; Task Forces:;;;;;;;; * Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force;;;;;;;; * Personalization Task Force;;;;;;;; * Research Questions Task Force;;;;;;;; * Spoken Pronunciation Task Force;;;;;;;; * CSS Accessibility Task Force;;;;;;;; * Web Payments Accessibility Sub-Group;;;;;;;; * HTML Accessibility Task Force;;;;;;;; "* Specification Accessibility Task Force"",""Participation for Invited Experts (ML): https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/participation";;;;;;;; Contribution (ML): https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/contribute;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,ARIA and Assistive Technologies Community Group (ARIA-AT),https://www.w3.org/community/aria-at/,Accessibility,Tangential,Dedicated to screen readers/voice output testing and advocacy.,UASG partnership can be established around testing efforts.,This community group is dedicated to: 1. helping assistive technology developers converge on a set of clear norms for baseline support of WAI-ARIA. 2. Helping web developers understand the current state of support for WAI-ARIA by assistive technologies. WAI-ARIA is as important to assistive technology presentation as CSS is to visual presentation. Join us to help make WAI-ARIA as reliable as CSS. This group will not publish Specifications.,""Participation (ML): https://www.w3.org/accounts/login?redirect_url=/community/aria-at/join";;;;;;;; Contribution (GH): https://github.com/w3c/aria-at;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Chinese Web Interest Group,https://www.w3.org/2018/chinese-web-ig/,Community,Tangential,Aimed at integrating and representing Chinese Web users.,""Not very active, but contacts could still be valuable to the UASG."",""The Chinese Web Interest Group provides a forum for W3C members to enhance the participation in Web standards work from the Chinese Web community. The group will focus primarily on identifying unique requirements from China, on helping the Chinese members to get familiar with the process of W3C standards activities, on discussion of technical ideas with the potential to be proposed to W3C, on standards testing and implementation, as well as corresponding standardization opportunities for W3C while assisting the participation and contribution from the Chinese Web community."",""Participation for Invited Experts (ML): https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/chinese-web/instructions";;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Credentials Community Group (CCG),https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/,Identity,Moderate,Very active group on diverse tasks related to credentials standards.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as email addresses are part of the credentials environment."",""The mission of the W3C Credentials Community Group is to explore the creation, storage, presentation, verification, and user control of credentials. We focus on a verifiable credential (a set of claims) created by an issuer about a subject?a person, group, or thing?and seek solutions inclusive of approaches such as: self-sovereign identity"; presentation of proofs by the bearer; data minimization;" and centralized, federated, and decentralized registry and identity systems. Our tasks include drafting and incubating Internet specifications for further standardization and prototyping and testing reference implementations."",""External website: https://w3c-ccg.github.io";;;;; Meeting minutes: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/meetings;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.w3.org/accounts/login?redirect_url=/community/credentials/join;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (IRC): irc://irc.w3.org:6665/#ccg""";;;;;;;; "W3C,Decentralized Identifier Working Group (DIDWG),https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/,Identity,Moderate,DIDs are a new type of identifier that enable verifiable and decentralized digital identities.,UASG partnership can be established within the context of it supporting all domain names and email addresses.,""The mission of the Decentralized Identifier Working Group is to standardize the DID URI scheme, the data model and syntax of DID Documents, which contain information related to DIDs that enable the aforementioned initial use cases, and the requirements for DID Method specifications."",""Key document: https://w3c.github.io/did-core";;;;;;;; Meeting minutes: https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/Meetings/Minutes;;;;;;;; Participation for Invited Experts (ML): https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/did/instructions;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,HTML Working Group,https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/htmlwg,Web/DNS,Moderate,""The drafting of HTML specs is performed by an external entity, the WHATWG. Nevertheless, the W3C?s HTML Working Group could still be an avenue for the UASG to push for native HTML validation of all domain names."",UASG partnership can be established around combined outreach efforts.,The mission of the HTML Working Group is to give input to and bring the WHATWG HTML and DOM Review Drafts to W3C Recommendations.,""Participation for Invited Experts (ML): https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/htmlwg/instructions";;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Internationalization Working Group (i18n),https://www.w3.org/nternational/core/Overview,i18n,High,The most active W3C group dealing with internationalization issues.,UASG partnership can be established to share best practices or potentially perform joint actions.,""The mission of the Internationalization Working Group is to enable universal access to the World Wide Web by proposing and coordinating the adoption by the W3C of techniques, conventions, technologies, and designs that enable and enhance the use of W3C technology and the Web worldwide, with and between various different languages, scripts, regions, and cultures."",""Social media: https://twitter.com/webi18n";;;;;;;; Projects index: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects;;;;;;;; Participation for Invited Experts (ML): https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/i18n-core/instructions;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,MiniApps Ecosystem Community Group,https://www.w3.org/community/miniapps/,Web/DNS,Moderate,""New mobile applications combining Web technologies and capabilities of native applications, driven by the Chinese private sector."",UASG partnership can be established for the standard to be natively UA-Ready.,""The MiniApps Ecosystem Community Group provides a forum for global community to discuss, incubate and propose MiniApp related standard ideas with the goal to bring more interoperability and robustness to MiniApp ecosystem."",""Key document: https://w3c.github.io/miniapp/white-paper";;;;;;;; Meeting minutes: https://github.com/w3c/miniapp/blob/gh-pages/Meetings/CG.md;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.w3.org/accounts/login?redirect_url=/community/miniapps/join;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Silver Community Group,https://www.w3.org/community/silver/,Accessibility,High,Key contributors to W3C?s Accessibility Guidelines Working Group.,""UASG partnership is desirable, in order to promote UA as an accessibility feature."",Support the research and prototyping of the next major version of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). This group may publish Specifications.,""Key document: https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag-3.0";;;;;;;; External website 1: https://w3c.github.io/silver;;;;;;;; External website 2: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/silver/wiki/Main_Page;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.w3.org/accounts/login?redirect_url=/community/silver/join;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Point of contact 2 (IRC): irc://irc.w3.org/#silver""";;;;;;;; "W3C,Spec Editors Community Group,https://www.w3.org/community/speced-cg/,Community,Tangential,Deals in a general manner with the writing of specifications for technology.,Contacts could be valuable to the UASG.,""The Spec Editors Community Group aims to be an inclusive space where spec editors, and those wanting to become spec editors, can learn from each other. The Spec Ed CG focuses on the practice (the art?) of writing technical specifications across the Web ecosystem (W3C, WHATWG, ECMA, IETF, etc.). By looking across the ecosystem, we hope to improve our specification development practices at the W3C."",""Participation (ML): https://www.w3.org/accounts/login?redirect_url=/community/speced-cg/join";;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Technical Architecture Group (TAG),https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/,Community,Moderate,Reviews Web standards development and implementation.,UASG partnership can be established in order to further validate UA solutions.,""The TAG is a special working group within the W3C, chartered (under the W3C Process Document) with stewardship of the Web architecture. As outlined in its charter, there are three aspects to this mission: 1) to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary"; 2) to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG;" 3) to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C."",""Participation (ML): https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag";;;;;; Contribution: https://tag.w3.org/workmode;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,XForms Users Community Group,https://www.w3.org/community/xformsusers/,Web/DNS,High,The group most closely working directly with forms within the W3C.,""UASG partnership is desirable, to promote UA in the development of this standard."",A group for XForms users to discuss the use of XForms and propose changes and additions to the markup.,""Key document: https://www.w3.org/community/xformsusers/wiki/XForms_2.0";;;;;;;; External website: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/Main_Page;;;;;;;; "Participation (ML): https://www.w3.org/accounts/login?redirect_url=/community/xformsusers/join""";;;;;;;; "W3C,WAI Interest Group,https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/waiig/,Accessibility,High,Focused on dissemination of W3C accessibility standards.,UASG partnership can be established around combined outreach efforts.,""The mission of the WAI Interest Group (WAI IG) is to promote awareness of, and engagement in, accessibility-related work throughout W3C. This includes augmenting wide reviews of WAI deliverables, and augmenting APA WG's review and discussion of accessibility aspects of deliverables being developed in W3C groups, including specifications, research topics, and educational materials"; exploring web accessibility issues and solutions;" and sharing information about web accessibility activities around the world."",""Participation (ML): https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/waiig/#subscribing-and-unsubscribing-to-the-discussion-list";;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Web Application Security Working Group,https://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/,Cybersecurity,Tangential,Deals with various security-related questions on Web applications.,UASG partnership can be established around the security solutions developed to handle UA support.,""The mission of the Web Application Security Working Group is to develop security and policy mechanisms to improve the security of Web Applications, and enable secure cross-site communication."",""Meeting minutes: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/tree/main/meetings";;;;;;;; Participation (ML): public-webappsec-request@w3.org;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Web Applications Working Group (WebApps WG),https://www.w3.org/2019/webapps/,Web/DNS,Tangential,Deals with various aspects of Web applications and their components.,UASG partnership can maybe be established in ensuring UA-Readiness of components.,The mission of the Web Applications Working Group (WebApps WG) is to produce specifications that facilitate the development of client-side web applications.,""Projects index: https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webapps/publications";;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webapps/join;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "W3C,Web Authentication Working Group/WebAuthn,https://www.w3.org/Webauthn/,Identity,High,Focused on developing the Web Authentication API.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as email addresses are part of the credentials environment."",""The mission of the Web Authentication Working Group, in the Security Activity is to define a client-side API providing strong authentication functionality to Web Applications."",""Key document: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn";;;;;;;; Meeting minutes: https://www.w3.org/blog/webauthn/2021/01/07/meeting-minutes-2021;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webauthn/join;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "WHATWG,DOM Living Standard,https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/,Web/DNS,Tangential,Standard broadly responsible for the structuring of Web documents.,Its work is tangentially related to the UASG?s mission.,""?The Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for web documents. It represents the page so that programs can change the document structure, style, and content. The DOM represents the document as nodes and objects";" that way, programming languages can interact with the page. A web page is a document that can be either displayed in the browser window or as the HTML source. In both cases, it is the same document but the Document Object Model (DOM) representation allows it to be manipulated. As an object-oriented representation of the web page, it can be modified with a scripting language such as JavaScript?. (Source: Mozilla)"",""Contribute (GH): https://github.com/whatwg/dom";;;;;;; Interaction (Matrix): https://app.element.io/#/room/#whatwg:matrix.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thedomstandard""";;;;;;;; "WHATWG,Encoding Living Standard,https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/,i18n,High,Important group in the standardization of UTF-8.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as both groups? missions are connected."",""The UTF-8 encoding is the most appropriate encoding for interchange of Unicode, the universal coded character set. Therefore, for new protocols and formats, as well as existing formats deployed in new contexts, this specification requires (and defines) the UTF-8 encoding. The other (legacy) encodings have been defined to some extent in the past. However, user agents have not always implemented them in the same way, have not always used the same labels, and often differ in dealing with undefined and former proprietary areas of encodings. This specification addresses those gaps so that new user agents do not have to reverse engineer encoding implementations and existing user agents can converge."",""Contribute (GH): https://github.com/whatwg/encoding";;;;;;;; Interaction (Matrix): https://app.element.io/#/room/#whatwg:matrix.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (Twitter): https://twitter.com/encodings""";;;;;;;; "WHATWG,Fetch Living Standard,https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/,Web/DNS,High,Group coordinating the standardization of several aspects of ?fetching? on the Web.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as this is an active part of the UA processes."",""The Fetch standard defines requests, responses, and the process that binds them: fetching. The goal is to unify fetching across the web platform and provide consistent handling of everything that involves, including: URL schemes"; Redirects; Cross-origin semantics; CSP; Fetch Metadata; Service workers [SW]; Mixed Content; Upgrade Insecure Requests;" Referrer."",""Contribute (GH): https://github.com/whatwg/fetch" Interaction (Matrix): https://app.element.io/#/room/#whatwg:matrix.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (Twitter): https://twitter.com/fetchstandard""";;;;;;;; "WHATWG,HTML Living Standard,https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/,Web/DNS,High,The core developers of HTML.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as both groups? missions are connected."",""?This specification defines a big part of the web platform, in lots of detail.?"",""Key document: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/";;;;;;;; Contribute (GH): https://github.com/whatwg/html;;;;;;;; Interaction (Matrix): https://app.element.io/#/room/#whatwg:matrix.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (Twitter): https://twitter.com/htmlstandard""";;;;;;;; "WHATWG,Infra Living Standard,https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/,Community,Tangential,The WHATWG?s meta-standards group.,The inclusion of UA as a concern could be explored.,""The Infra Standard aims to define the fundamental concepts upon which standards are built. Seeks to: deduplicate boilerplate in standards"; align standards on conventions, terminology, and data structures; be a place for concepts used by multiple standards without a good home;" help write clear and readable algorithmic prose by clarifying otherwise ambiguous concepts."",""Contribute (GH): https://github.com/whatwg/infra/";;;;; Interaction (Matrix): https://app.element.io/#/room/#whatwg:matrix.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (Twitter): https://twitter.com/infrastandard""";;;;;;;; "WHATWG,MIME Sniffing Living Standard,https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/,Mail,Tangential,""Sets standards around MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, though that name is misleading) types."",""Certain aspects of MIME are involved in UA, but it is unclear how much this can influence the UASG?s mission. Contacting the group might be desirable."",The MIME Sniffing standard defines sniffing resources. It describes a content sniffing algorithm that carefully balances the compatibility needs of user agent with the security constraints imposed by existing web content.,""Contribute (GH): https://github.com/whatwg/mimesniff";;;;;;;; Interaction (Matrix): https://app.element.io/#/room/#whatwg:matrix.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mimesniff""";;;;;;;; "WHATWG,Notifications API Living Standard,https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/,Web/DNS,Tangential,Sets the standard for notifications pushed by websites.,""The content displayed by notifications may involve IDNs and websites with new gTLDs, but it is unclear how much this can influence the UASG?s mission. Contacting the group might be desirable."",""This standard defines an API to display notifications to the end user, typically outside the top-level browsing context?s viewport. It is designed to be compatible with existing notification systems, while remaining platform-independent."",""Contribute (GH): https://github.com/whatwg/notifications";;;;;;;; Interaction (Matrix): https://app.element.io/#/room/#whatwg:matrix.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (Twitter): https://twitter.com/notifyapi""";;;;;;;; "WHATWG,Storage Living Standard,https://storage.spec.whatwg.org/,Web/DNS,Moderate,Standard that consolidates storage-related actions on the Web.,""Storage of data and its retrieval is a known chokepoint for UA, but it is unclear how much this can influence the UASG?s mission. Contacting the group is desirable."",""The Storage Standard defines an API for persistent storage and quota estimates, as well as the platform storage architecture. Over the years the web has grown various APIs that can be used for storage, e.g., IndexedDB, localStorage, and showNotification(). The Storage Standard consolidates these APIs by defining: a bucket, the primitive these APIs store their data in"; a way of making that bucket persistent;" a way of getting usage and quota estimates for an origin."",""Contribute (GH): https://github.com/whatwg/storage";;;;;; Interaction (Matrix): https://app.element.io/#/room/#whatwg:matrix.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (Twitter): https://twitter.com/storagestandard""";;;;;;;; "WHATWG,URL Living Standard,https://url.spec.whatwg.org/,Web/DNS,High,Sets URL standards.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as the standard directly and specifically mentions IDNA."",The URL standard aims to make URLs fully interoperable.,""Contribute (GH): https://github.com/whatwg/url";;;;;;;; Interaction (Matrix): https://app.element.io/#/room/#whatwg:matrix.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact (Twitter): https://twitter.com/urlstandard""";;;;;;;; "IETF,art-dmarc: Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dmarc/,Mail,High,Standard directed at reducing email abuse leveraging the DNS.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as there is significant intersection between UA and an email filtering solutions such as DMARC."",""Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) uses existing mail authentication technologies (SPF and DKIM) to extend validation to the RFC5322.From field. DMARC uses DNS records to add policy-related requests for receivers and defines a feedback mechanism from receivers back to domain owners. This allows a domain owner to advertise that mail can safely receive differential handling, such as rejection, when the use of the domain name in the From field is not authenticated. Existing deployment of DMARC has demonstrated utility at internet scale, in dealing with significant email abuse, and has permitted simplifying some mail handling processes."",""Key document: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322";;;;;;;; Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dmarc/meetings/;;;;;;;; Archive (Wiki): https://trac.ietf.org/trac/dmarc/wiki;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:dmarc@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IETF,art-emailcore: Revision of core Email specifications,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/emailcore/,Mail,Tangential,Limited scope revision to the email specification.,Unclear if UA would be a relevant subject. Contacting the group might be desirable.,""This working group will conduct a limited review and revision to the base email specifications, and will publish new versions of these documents at Internet Standard status, per RFC 6410. The limited review is restricted to corrections and clarifications only, with a strong emphasis on keeping these minimal and avoiding broader changes to terminology or document organization."",""Key document: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6410";;;;;;;; Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/emailcore/meetings;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/emailcore;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:emailcore@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IETF,art-extra: Email mailstore and eXtensions to Revise or Amend,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/extra/,Mail,High,""Deals with an assortment of email-related protocols: IMAP, SIEVE, ManageSieve."",""Both IMAP and SIEVE can be part of the UA process, and it can be worth exploring avenues to collaborate."",""The IETF maintains several key email related protocols that relate to message delivery to mailstores and mailstore access. These include the following: IMAP (RFC3501) SIEVE (RFC5228) ManageSieve (RFC5804). From time to time, there are bursts of work to do and the motivation and critical mass to do it. When such bursts coincide, it's important to give them a home. This working group provides such a venue."",""Key document 1: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3501";;;;;;;; Key document 2: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5228;;;;;;;; Key document 3: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5804;;;;;;;; Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/extra/meetings;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/extra;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:extra@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IETF,art-httpapi: Building Blocks for HTTP APIs,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/httpapi/,Web/DNS,Tangential,Handles specific aspects of HTTP.,Unclear if UA would be a relevant subject. Contacting the group might be desirable.,""In addition to its use for web browsing, HTTP is often used for machine-to-machine communication, facilitated by HTTP APIs. This Working Group will standardize HTTP protocol extensions for use in such cases, with a focus on building blocks for separate or combined use. Its output can include the following: specifications for HTTP extensions that relate to HTTP APIs (typically, new HTTP header and/or trailer fields)"; specifications for new message body formats, or conventions for their use in HTTP APIs (e.g., patterns of JSON objects);" best practices and other documentation for HTTP API designers, consumers, implementers, operators, etc. Other items are out of scope."",""Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/httpapi/meetings/";;;;;; Archive (GH): https://github.com/ietf-wg-httpapi/wg-materials;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/httpapi;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:httpapi@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IETF,art-httpbis: HTTP standard,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/,Web/DNS,Moderate,Deals with most aspects of HTTP.,""HTTP is a core component of the Internet, but it is unclear how much this can influence the UASG?s mission. Contacting the group is desirable."",""This Working Group is charged with maintaining and developing the \core\ specifications for HTTP, and generic extensions to it (i.e., those that are not specific to one application)."",""External website: https://httpwg.org";;;;;;;; Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/meetings/;;;;;;;; Contribute (GH): https://github.com/httpwg;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:httpbis@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IETF,art-jmap: JSON Mail Access Protocol,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jmap/,Mail,High,JMAP is a (recent) competitor to IMAP.,""As a new email standard, there night be space for UA to be introduced as an active concern."",""The JMAP protocol defined in draft-ietf-jmap-core is designed to be extensible to multiple datatypes which are useful for personal information management related to email stores. Now that draft-ietf-jmap-mail is completed, the working group will produce specifications for related data types, beginning with calendars and contacts. According to the developers: ?JMAP is the developer-friendly, open API standard for modern mail clients and applications to manage email faster.?"",""Key document: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8620";;;;;;;; External website: https://jmap.io;;;;;;;; Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jmap/meetings;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jmap;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:jmap@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IETF,art-regext: Registration Protocols Extensions,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/regext/,Web/DNS,High,Extends the EPP standard.,The group has active UA concerns in its discussions of the ?Use of Internationalized Email Addresses in the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)? draft.,""The Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP, Standard 69) is the standard domain name provisioning protocol for top-level domain name registries. To avoid many separate EPP extensions that provide the same functions, it's important to coordinate and standardize EPP extensions."",""Key document: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-regext-epp-eai";;;;;;;; Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/regext/meetings;;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:regext@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IETF,ops-dnsop: Domain Name System Operations,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dnsop/,Web/DNS,High,Develops guidelines for DNS operations.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as both groups? missions are connected."",The DNS Operations Working Group will develop guidelines for the operation of DNS software and services and for the administration of DNS zones. These guidelines will provide technical information relating to the implementation of the DNS protocol by the operators and administrators of DNS zones.,""Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dnsop/meetings";;;;;;;; Participation (ML): http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:dnsop@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IETF,sec-gnap: Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/gnap/,Identity,Tangential,Deals with a broad range of identity solutions.,Unclear if UA would be a relevant subject. Contacting the group might be desirable.,""This group is chartered to develop a fine-grained delegation protocol for authorization, API access, user identifiers, and identity assertions. The protocol will also allow the client to present unverified identifiers and verifiable assertions to the Authorization Server (AS) as part of its request. This protocol enables an authorizing party to delegate access to client software to use a Resource Server (RS) with this token. It will expand upon the use cases currently supported by OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (itself an extension of OAuth 2.0) to support authorizations scoped as narrowly as a single transaction, provide a clear framework for interaction among all parties involved in the protocol flow, and remove unnecessary dependence on a browser or user-agent for coordinating interactions."",""Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/gnap/meetings";;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/txauth;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:gnap@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IETF,sec-privacypass: Privacy Pass,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/privacypass/,Identity,Tangential,Deals with token issuing and verification.,Unclear if UA would be a relevant subject. Contacting the group might be desirable.,""The Privacy Pass protocol provides a performant, application-layer mechanism for token creation and anonymous redemption. Servers (Issuers) create and later verify tokens that are redeemed by an ecosystem of clients. The primary purpose of the Privacy Pass Working Group is to develop and standardize a protocol that meets these requirements, influenced by applications that have arisen from the wider community."",""Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/gnap/meetings";;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy-pass;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:privacypass@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IRTF,Hrpc: Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group,https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/hrpc/,Community,High,Focused on Human Rights concerns within and around the IETF.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as both groups? missions are connected."",""The Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group is chartered to research whether standards and protocols can enable, strengthen or threaten human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), specifically, but not limited to the right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of assembly."",""Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/hrpc/meetings";;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/hrpc;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:hrpc@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IRTF,Gaia: Global Access to the Internet for All,https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/gaia/,Community,High,Focused on enabling a global Internet.,""UASG partnership is desirable, as both groups? missions are connected."",""The Global Access to the Internet for All Research Group (GAIA) is an IRTF initiative that aims, among other goals:";;;;;;;; * to create increased visibility and interest among the wider community on the challenges and opportunities in enabling global Internet access, in terms of technology as well as the social and economic drivers for its adoption;;;;;;;; * to create a shared vision among practitioners, researchers, corporations, non-governmental and governmental organizations on the challenges and opportunities;;;;;;;; "* to articulate and foster collaboration among them to address the diverse Internet access and architectural challenges (including security, privacy, censorship and energy efficiency)."",""Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/gaia/meetings";;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/gaia;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:gaia@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "IRTF,Dinrg: Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Research Group,https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/dinrg/about/,Community,Moderate,The group studies the evolution of decentralized internetworking.,""These solutions are becoming more relevant to the Internet?s functions, and it might benefit the UASG to follow such discussions with attention."",""The Decentralized Internet Infrastructure Research Group (DINRG) will investigate open research issues in decentralizing infrastructure services such as trust management, identity management, name resolution, resource/asset ownership management, and resource discovery. The focus of DINRG is on infrastructure services that can benefit from decentralization or that are difficult to realize in local, potentially connectivity-constrained networks. We are simultaneously seeing the evolution of use cases (e.g., certain IoT deployments) that cannot work (or which work poorly) in centralized deployment scenarios along with the evolution of decentralized technologies which leverage new cryptographic infrastructures, such as DNSSEC, or which use novel, cryptographically-based distributed consensus mechanisms, such as a number of different ledger technologies."",""Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/rg/dinrg/meetings";;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/din;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:dinrg@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "Unicode Consortium,International Components for Unicode (ICU),http://site.icu-project.org/,i18n,High,""Developers of the ICU libraries, which provide i18n functions to software."",""According to previous UASG research, ICU is a key strategic component for UA deployment, and collaboration opportunities should be pursued."",""ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU is widely portable and gives applications the same results on all platforms and between C/C++ and Java software."",""Meeting minutes: https://icu.unicode.org/projectinfo/meetings";;;;;;;; Contribute (GH): https://github.com/unicode-org/icu;;;;;;;; Participation on usage (ML): https://sourceforge.net/projects/icu/lists/icu-support;;;;;;;; Participation on API (ML): https://sourceforge.net/projects/icu/lists/icu-design;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Unicode Consortium,Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (Unicode CLDR Project),http://cldr.unicode.org/,i18n,Tangential,Most relevant source of locale data.,""Proper implementation of locales can advance the UASG?s mission, but it is unclear what the ideal avenue for cooperation would be."",""The Unicode CLDR provides key building blocks for software to support the world's languages, with the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available. This data is used by a wide spectrum of companies for their software internationalization and localization, adapting software to the conventions of different languages for such common software tasks. Most developers will use CLDR indirectly, via a set of software libraries, such as ICU, Closure, or TwitterCLDR. These libraries typically compile the CLDR data into a format that is compact and easy for the library to load and use."",""Key document: https://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-40";;;;;;;; Contribute (GH): https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Unicode Consortium,Unicode Technical Standard #46: Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing,https://unicode.org/reports/tr46/,i18n,High,Independent standard aimed at interoperating IDNA2003 and IDNA2008.,""IDNA is a key component for UA, and collaboration opportunities should be pursued."",""Client software, such as browsers and emailers, faces a difficult transition from the version of international domain names approved in 2003 (IDNA2003), to the revision approved in 2010 (IDNA2008). The specification in this document provides a mechanism that minimizes the impact of this transition for client software, allowing client software to access domains that are valid under either system. The specification provides two main features: One is a comprehensive mapping to support current user expectations for casing and other variants of domain names. Such a mapping is allowed by IDNA2008. The second is a compatibility mechanism that supports the existing domain names that were allowed under IDNA2003. This second feature is intended to improve client behavior during the transitional period."",""Key document: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr46/tr46-27.html";;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "ITU-T,Joint Coordination Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors (JCA-AHF),https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/jca/ahf/Pages/default.aspx,Accessibility,High,Delivers stronger human rights focus to the ITU and partner groups.,""UASG partnership is desirable, in order to promote UA as an accessibility feature."",""Increase awareness and help standard writers to mainstream accessibility features in telecommunication/ICT accessibility standards for the inclusion of persons with disabilities and persons with specific needs, including age-related disabilities, those with illiteracy, women, children, and indigenous people";" assist study groups in the identification of standardization opportunities and solutions that improve the accessibility and human factors aspects of their work."",""Key document: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/jca/ahf/Documents/docs-2017/ToR/ToR%20of%20JCA-AHF_approved%20by%20TSAG%202017.docx";;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/ewm/Pages/services.aspx;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "ACM and the IEEE,ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula,https://www.acm.org/education/curricula-recommendations,Community,High,Recommends curricula for IT course around the world.,""UASG partnership is desirable, in order to include UA as a competence."",""The Computing Curriculum 2020 (CC2020) project is an initiative launched jointly by several professional computing societies to summarize and synthesize the current state of curricular guidelines for academic programs that grant baccalaureate-level degrees in computing as well as propose a vision for future curricular guidelines. This project aims not only to reflect the state-of-the-art in computing education and practice, but also to provide insights into the future of the field of computing education for the 2020s and beyond."",""Key document:";;;;;;;; https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/education/curricula-recommendations/cc2020.pdf;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Others: Cybersecurity,Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG),https://apwg.org/,Cybersecurity,Moderate,""The most prominent anti-phishing group, producing key reports on the subject."",""Both ICANN and UASG partner Verisign have existing relations with them, from which the UASG could benefit to reach out to the group in order to represent its interests."",""APWG is the international coalition unifying the global response to cybercrime across industry, government and law-enforcement sectors and NGO communities. APWG?s membership of more than 2200 institutions worldwide is as global as its outlook. It attempts to eliminate fraud and identity theft caused by phishing and related incidents."",""Key document: https://docs.apwg.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q3_2021.pdf";;;;;;;; "Points of contact: ICANN, Verisign""";;;;;;;; "Others: Cybersecurity,Center for Internet Security (CIS): Critical Security Controls Community,https://www.cisecurity.org/communities/controls/,Cybersecurity,High,CIS?s Critical Security Controls are a set of constantly revised step-by-step guidelines which serve as a baseline for the digital protection of diverse actors.,""CIS?s ?Control 9: Email and Web Browser Protections? is an adequate point for UASG engagement, through their Critical Security Controls Community."",""The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS) is a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), a trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery."",""Key document: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/email-and-web-browser-protections";;;;;;;; Participation: https://workbench.cisecurity.org;;;;;;;; "Point of contact: https://learn.cisecurity.org/contact-us""";;;;;;;; "Others: Cybersecurity,FIRST: DNS Abuse SIG,https://www.first.org/global/sigs/dns/,Cybersecurity,Moderate,""An important actor in the DNS Abuse sector, focused on Cyber Incident Response Teams (CIRTs)."",""Both ICANN and UASG partner Verisign have existing relations with them, from which the UASG could benefit to reach out to the group in order to represent its interests."",""?FIRST provides platforms, means and tools for incident responders to always find the right partner and to collaborate efficiently. This implies that FIRST?s reach is global. We aspire to have members from every country and culture. During an incident it is important that people have a common understanding and enough maturity to react in a fast and efficient manner. FIRST supports teams through training opportunities to grow and mature. FIRST also supports initiatives to develop common means of data transfer to enable machine to machine communication. FIRST members do not work in isolation, but are part of a larger system. FIRST engages with relevant stakeholders, in technical and non-technical communities, to ensure teams can work in an environment that is conducive to their goals.?"",""Points of contact: ICANN CIRT, Verisign""";;;;;;;; "Others: Cybersecurity,Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG),https://www.m3aawg.org/,Cybersecurity,Moderate,""An important actor in the DNS Abuse sector, with a significant number of renowned experts attached to it."",""Both ICANN and UASG partner Verisign have existing relations with them, from which the UASG could benefit to reach out to the group in order to represent its interests."",""?The Messaging, Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) is where the industry comes together to work against botnets, malware, spam, viruses, DoS attacks and other online exploitation. We are the largest global industry association, with more than 200 members worldwide, bringing together all the stakeholders in the online community in a confidential, open forum. We develop cooperative approaches for fighting online abuse. (...) We develop and publish best practices papers, position statements, training and educational videos, and other materials to help the online community fight abuse with a focus on operational practices. Our public policy advocacy (which is not lobbying) provides technical and operational guidance to governments, Internet and public policy agencies developing new Internet policies and legislation.?"",""Points of contact: ICANN, Verisign""";;;;;;;; "Others: Cybersecurity,sec-oauth: Web Authorization Protocol,https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/,Identity,High,The main IAM solution available.,""UASG partnership is desirable given that by making sure this specification is UA-Ready, there is a good chance that all others will be as well."",""The Web Authorization (OAuth) protocol allows a user to grant a third-party web site or application access to the user's protected resources, without necessarily revealing their long-term credentials, or even their identity. For example, a photo-sharing site that supports OAuth could allow its users to use a third-party printing web site to print their private pictures, without allowing the printing site to gain full control of the user's account and without having the user share his or her photo-sharing sites' long-term credential with the printing site."",""Meeting minutes: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/meetings";;;;;;;; Participation (ML): https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; "Interaction (Jabber): xmpp:oauth@jabber.ietf.org?join""";;;;;;;; "Python Software Foundation,Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs),https://www.python.org/dev/peps/,i18n,High,The group responsible for the advancement of the Python language.,UASG partnership aimed at implementing IDNA2008 as a standard.,""PEP stands for Python Enhancement Proposal. A PEP is a design document providing information to the Python community, or describing a new feature for Python or its processes or environment. The PEP should provide a concise technical specification of the feature and a rationale for the feature. We intend PEPs to be the primary mechanisms for proposing major new features, for collecting community input on an issue, and for documenting the design decisions that have gone into Python. The PEP author is responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting dissenting opinions."",https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8102/";;;;;;;;