22nd February 2007 W3C Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group Launched

W3C has launched this new Working Group to follow up the work of the Content Label Incubator Activity (see below). The working group is chartered to produce Recommendations covering how groups of resources, such as "everything on this website", can be described and how the origin of those descriptions can be authenticated. The data model developed in the Incubator will provide the basis for the work which should start to publish draft documents within a few months. Use cases include mobileOK, accessibility and trustmarks as well as FOSI's primary concern: child protection.

As with the Incubator, FOSI's Phil Archer will chair the POWDER working group.