23 April 2019 W3C released today its  W3C Strategic Highlights – Spring 2019 , a comprehensive survey of the essential work W3C conducts to achieve a Web for All, and select recent work in many areas where the Web can solve arising problems for real people. To the pipeline of innovations to enable the Web to scale to meet the new challenges and opportunities, we are making recent additions: W3C  chartered a Web Payment Security Interest Group  to foster greater coordination and ultimately enhance the security and interoperability of Web payments. Web & Networks: what is needed for the Web to take advantage of 5G, QUIC, and Edge Computing changing the topology of network-based services? We have started to flesh out a group charter in the wake of the W3C Web5G workshop in May 2018. As the Web evolves continuously, some groups are looking for ways for specifications to do so as well. So-called “evergreen recommendations” or “living standards” aim to track c...

10 January 2018 W3C announced today  Web5G: Aligning evolutions of network and Web technologies Workshop , May 10-11 2018, in London, UK. The event is hosted by GSMA. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together telecommunications operators, network equipment providers, content delivery networks, browser vendors, and application developers to evaluate and prepare for the impact of 5G and other network-layer technologies on Web standards. Expected topics of discussion include: Performance bottlenecks of Web apps on ultra-fast networks Dimensioning 5G Networks for supporting existing and future Web technologies (VR/AR, automotive, WebRTC, IoT) Architectural evolutions of the Web to enable greater network/application integration Connecting network management and network metrics from Web applications Case studies of existing network/application integration and their extension to the Web Features provided by new networking technologies and their applicability ...