World Wide Web Consortium seeking next CEO

 The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working with leading international executive search firm Perrett Laver to find qualified candidates from around the world to be our CEO.

W3C began 2023 by forming a new public-interest incorporated not-for-profit organization. We are now seeking our next leader at this exciting time in our evolution.

The new organization preserves the core process and mission of the Web 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. The new W3C entity preserves our member-driven approach and existing worldwide outreach and cooperation.

W3C is a unique organization at a crucial transition point in its existence. Reporting to the newly formed Board of Directors, the CEO will be responsible for the success of W3C in line with our mission. The CEO must be an experienced and collaborative leader who appreciates the strong assets of W3C —its expert staff, engaged members, committed Board and fantastic reputation— and has the capacity to effectively leverage these to transform the organization and ensure a bright future and further impact.

The next CEO of W3C will be a strategic, collaborative, and motivating leader. They will have a global mindset and the ability to effectively engage with a diverse range of stakeholders. They will be a person of integrity who is forward thinking and supportive of staff. Most importantly, they will have an affinity for, and understanding of, the work, mission, and values of W3C.

W3C invites applications from qualified CEO candidates from across several continents. Please refer to the Perrett Laver site. The deadline for applications is Friday, May 12th, 2023.

W3C invites implementations of Trace Context Level 2

 The Distributed Tracing Working Group invites implementations of the Trace Context Level 2 Candidate Recommendation Snapshot. This specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format to propagate context information that enables distributed tracing scenarios. The specification standardizes how context information is sent and modified between services. Context information uniquely identifies individual requests in a distributed system and also defines a means to add and propagate provider-specific context information.

First Public Working Drafts: EdDSA Cryptosuite v2022; ECDSA Cryptosuite v2019

 The Verifiable Credentials Working Group has published the following two First Public Working Drafts:

• EdDSA Cryptosuite v2022: This specification describes a Data Integrity cryptographic suite for use when creating or verifying a digital signature using the twisted Edwards Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) and Curve25519 (ed25519).
• ECDSA Cryptosuite v2019: This specification describes a Data Integrity Cryptosuite for use when generating a digital signature using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) based on the Standards for Efficient Cryptography over prime fields using a verifiably random Elliptic Curve (secpr1).

W3C invites implementations of Web Neural Network API

 The Web Machine Learning Working Group invites implementations of the Web Neural Network API Candidate Recommendation Snapshot.

The Web Neural Network API is a low-level browser API that enables hardware acceleration of machine learning models, opening the way to high-performance privacy-preserving usage of computer vision, natural language processing and generation or speech processing improvements emerging from the recent advances in the field.

Comments are welcome via the GitHub issues by 1 October 2023.

Updated Candidate Recommendation: CSS Display Module Level 3

 The CSS Working Group invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of CSS Display Module Level 3. This module describes how the CSS formatting box tree is generated from the document element tree and defines the display property that controls it.

Comments are welcome via the GitHub issues by 30 May 2023.