W3C Strategic Highlights April 2019
Apr 23, 2019
The work of designing the web continues apace (it will probably never stop) and now consists of some 30 separate working groups and a dozen interest groups. To discern future directions it's probably easiest to look at the pipeline of innovations (illustrated). Some of the big things coming up: distributed (self-sovereign) identity, secure web payments, and interledger protocols. These reflect a desire on the part of web designers to decentralize and distribute control somewhat - an internet dominated by entities such as Google and Facebook makes people nervous, especially if they have a proprietary grip on identity, payments and data.
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