I tend to agree with you. Is there a reason not to formally object? On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 3:30 PM L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote:
> The W3C is proposing a new charter for: > > Decentralized Identifier (DID) Working Group > https://www.w3.org/2019/08/did-wg-charter.html > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2019Aug/0000.html > > Mozilla has the opportunity to send comments or objections through > this Saturday, August 31. > > Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should > say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should > support or oppose it. > > > I'm pretty concerned that this group isn't a good use of W3C's > resources, and that the promoters of this work and related areas of > work have convinced various parties (e.g., government agencies like > [1]) that this work is valuable, partly through the use of the W3C's > reputation to promote this work. > > (I also feel like, while it's called decentralized, in practice it > seems to require more centralization than the Web, which allows > anyone to register a domain and then mint URLs. I'm also skeptical > of the privacy claims made in the groups charter.) > > That said, I think it's probably going to happen anyway no matter > what we say, so I'm not sure what, if anything, to say in the > review. I'd probably be inclined to explicitly abstain from the > review and add brief comments to that abstention. > > -David > > [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2019Aug/0013.html > > -- > 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 > 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 > Before I built a wall I'd ask to know > What I was walling in or walling out, > And to whom I was like to give offense. > - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914) > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
