The following W3C Recommendations were developed as IndieWeb building blocks and edited by members of the IndieWeb community as part of the W3C Social Web Working Group (SocialWG):
In 2014, W3C launched the Social Web Working Group, co-chaired by IndieWebCamp participants Tantek Çelik and Evan Prodromou, and IBM representative Arnaud Le Hors. The working group’s home page was its wiki page at https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg. It closed on 2018-02-13 and subsequent work on specs has continued in the IndieWeb community.
Spec Development Lifecycle
Workshop on Social Standards
In 2013, W3C organized the Workshop on Social Standards where several IndieWeb community members presented and participated in discussions, and which subsequently drove the creation of the W3C Social Web Working Group.
Downtime
Occasionally W3C’s server and services are down, you may want to keep local copies of key specifications for that reason.
2022-01-22
Many W3C services unavailable due to power outage:
"Hey @w3c_systeam https://status.w3.org/ says everything okay but http://w3.org/TR is giving 503 and reporting by email failed as it couldn't contact the mail server" @svgeesus January 22, 2022
2022-03-29
W3C blog (and possibly other services) was unreliable most of the day and returned 503 and occasionally 502 errors.
Our hosting provider conducted maintenance operations on its network on Monday, April 18, from 17:00 UTC to 23:00 UTC.
During this intervention several W3C services were momentarily unavailable.
W3C services for an organization officially joining a Working Group were out for at least an hour today:
Tantek Çelik and Evan Prodromou, and IBM representative Arnaud Le Hors. The working group’s home page was its wiki page at https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg. It closed on 2018-02-13 and subsequent work on specs has continued in the IndieWeb community.
@svgeesus January 22, 2022
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