Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start

You know the feeling. You’re in a product meeting, skimming GitHub issues, or catching up on another EU regulatory proposal, and you realize there’s something missing in how we’re building for the web. Maybe it’s a technical shortfall, maybe it’s a user experience no one’s nailed yet, or maybe it’s a whole category of use case the current standards aren’t touching with a ten-foot pole. That’s where the W3C Exploration Interest Group (IG) comes in. We’re not a working group. We’re not here to define normative specs. We’re here to connect the dots between the real world and the standards world and to ask better questions before jumping to answers. Think of us as the early R&D lab for identity, authentication, and trust on the web. Why this group, and why now? If you’re building for the web, navigating its policy landscape, or just trying to make something interoperable, this group’s for you. Why? Because web identity is in flux. Cookies are on the way out. Federated login flows are b ... Read full article.