Mastodawn

This is the first time we published a position in this way, and we welcome your thoughts! We plan to publish more positions in the future, as well as possible updates to this one.

W3C Advisory Board 1d ago

Are LLMs useful or problematic for the standards process? We gave it some thought and listed benefits, risks, and best practices in a position paper that we published today: https://www.w3.org/TR/llms-standards/

Use of Large Language Models in Standards Work

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly synonymous with “AI”, and are used by people within our community, we want to highlight considerations around different ways in which LLMs can be useful or problematic when it comes to leveraging them in standards work at W3C.

W3C Advisory Board Mar 12

Join us on 19 April at the Hangzhou developer meetup at Ant Group to learn more about AI and web, with talks on WASM, streaming and design systems. AB members Brent Zundel and @hdv will present too.

ℹ️ More info: https://www.w3.org/events/happenings/2026/hangzhou-developer-meetup/
🎟️ Registration: https://labs.w3.org/beihang/signup/2026-hangzhou-dev-meetup

Hangzhou Developer Meetup

Co-organizers, Ant Group and W3C, present the Hangzhou developer meetup, an event connecting the local developer community with W3C members.

W3C

W3C Advisory Board Feb 4

Kicking off our 3-day AB meeting in London, hosted by Apple.

W3C Advisory Board Dec 3

Hidde Dec 3

When talking about LLMs and sustainability, it's not enough to say “we don't know the impact, as companies don't disclose data”.

We may not have a lot of the actual data, but there are pretty reasonable estimates. Even conservative ones say LLMs have magnitudes more climate impact than doing the same thing without LLMs.

W3C Advisory Board Nov 26

World Wide Web Consortium Nov 26

W3C is cited in UN OHCHR's: "Making technical standards work for humanity: New pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for digital technologies"

"The W3C has published three consensus statements relevant to human rights: Ethical Web Principles, the Vision for W3C, and Privacy Principles, all of which are principle-driven and result in procedural commitments that are conducive for human rights in its technical standards setting"
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/civicspace/resources/civic-space-study-tech-standard-setting.pdf

W3C Advisory Board Nov 17

Hidde Nov 17

✏️ Reflections from @w3c TPAC 2025 https://hidde.blog/tpac-2025/

or: what sort of things are covered when standards people spend a week in meeting rooms together.

Reflections from TPAC 2025

Some reflections of my TPAC 2025.

Hidde's blog

W3C Advisory Board Nov 3

To increase transparency, the @w3c Advisory Board has started publishing public summaries of our meetings to our public repo.

On last week's call, we discussed coordination between AB and other W3C Working Groups as we plan to gather feedback at next week's TPAC meeting in Kobe on simplification of the W3C's process.

We briefly discussed the status of the new W3C logo launch.

We also also discussed starting a new regular community call, open to all W3C participants.

https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/blob/main/meetings/2025/10-30-summary.md

AB-public/meetings/2025/10-30-summary.md at main · w3c/AB-public

Advisory Board repository for materials not meant to be restricted to W3C Members - w3c/AB-public

GitHub

W3C Advisory Board Nov 3

World Wide Web Consortium Oct 31

📆 9 November 2025
Kobe Developer Meetup, Kobe Japan 🇯🇵

Join us to hear insightful talks and network with the Kobe developer community. This event is co-organized by NTT Docomo Business and W3C, and sponsored by Kobe Digital Lab, Asratec and Google.
https://www.w3.org/events/happenings/2025/kobe-developer-meetup/

Kobe Developer Meetup

Join us to hear insightful talks and network with the Kobe developer community.

W3C

W3C Advisory Board Jul 30, 2025

Tantek Çelik Jul 30, 2025

The Vision for W3C has been officially published as a ratified W3C Statement: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-w3c-vision-20250729/

As one of the editors, along with Chris Wilson (@cwilso.com @[email protected]), I’m both proud of this multi-year W3C Advisory Board (AB) effort, and grateful to everyone who contributed and gave feedback that helped improve the document.

Writing down and openly publishing our collective values and principles is an important step forward for W3C. We now have a shared reference to both guide our priorities and cite to help resolve differences in opinion (rather than having to appeal to authority).

The AB (@w3.org/wiki/AB @[email protected]) has prioritized work on the Vision project for many years (https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/Vision), and personally, co-leading this project during my time on the AB has been inspiring, challenging, and a source of many lessons learned. Lots more to share on all that. For now, happy to take a moment to celebrate this milestone.

#w3cVision #VisionForW3C #WorldWideWeb #W3C (@w3.org @[email protected])
#openWeb #webStandards

Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2025/100/t1/vision-for-w3c-please-vote

More posts:
* https://www.w3.org/news/2025/vision-for-w3c-is-a-w3c-statement/
* https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/vision-for-w3c-a-manifesto-for-our-operations-and-decision-making/

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