Web Application Security Working Group

Mission

As stated in its charter, the mission of the Web Application Security Working Group is to develop security and policy mechanisms to improve the security of Web Applications, and enable secure cross-site communication.

Past and Upcoming Events
Weekly teleconference: every other Tuesday, 22:00-23:00 UTC (14:00-15:00 PST)

Next call: 2011-01-17

2011-12-19 Call for Consensus to advance CORS to Last Call issued.
2011-12-1 Call for Exclusions for Content Security Policy issued. Deadline 27 April 2012
2011-11-29 First Public Working Draft of Content Security Policy published
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Publication Status

API Specifications and Non-Normative Documents
Name of Spec

(Editor's Draft)

Last Publication Type Remarks Testing Plans
Content Security Policy 29-Nov-2011 WD Editors: Brandon Sterne and Adam Barth
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing 27-July-2010 WD Editor: Anne van Kesteren Test Coordinator: Gopal Raghavan CfC to go to LCWD issued 19-Dec-2011
Uniform Messaging Policy, Level One 15-June-2010 Input document Editors: Tyler Close and Mark Miller Not on recommendation track at this time.
Security on the Web 4-Feb-2011 Input document summary by J. Kemp for the TAG - this document is not a TAG Finding

Working Group Resources

Work Mode

This general practices of this WG are are documented on our Work Mode Page.

Meeting Minutes

DRAFT: Call of 20 Dec 2011: http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/draft-minutes/20-webappsec-minutes.html

Call of 06 Dec 2011: http://www.w3.org/2011/12/06-webappsec-minutes.html

Call of 22 Nov 2011: http://www.w3.org/2011/11/01-webappsec-minutes.html

TPAC 2011, Day 1: http://www.w3.org/2011/10/31-webappsec-minutes.html

TPAC 2011, Day 2: http://www.w3.org/2011/11/01-webappsec-minutes.html

Actions/Issues tracking

See the Working Group's tracker instance (Tracker's documentation).

The WG's Bugzilla instace is at: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/describecomponents.cgi?product=WebAppsSec

Telecon Resources

Weekly teleconference: every other Tuesday, 22:00-23:00 UTC(14:00-15:00 PST)

The number for all calls on W3C Zakim bridge is +1.617.761.6200 then enter conference passcode 92794 ('WASWG'). If you can't get into the bridge, dial *0 to speak to the operator — they can manually connect you. Zakim allows participants to mute themselves by pressing 61# ("M" for mute, then "1" for on) and unmute themselves with 60#.

It is possible to participate in meetings by telephone alone but participants' interaction is substantially improved by also joining the #webappsec irc channel or using the IRC Web interface (see also the comprehensive help for IRC). The group makes use of the following agents: zakim, rrsagent, and tracker.

Mailing list

Technical discussion takes place on the Working Group discussion list, public-webappsec@w3.org (archive). This is a public mailing list; to subscribe to the public-webappsec mailing list, please check the subscription procedure.

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Wiki

Proposals, experiments, etc. related to this WG's deliverables can be discussed on the W3C Web Security Wiki at http://www.w3.org/Security/wiki/Main_Page

The WG will begin work on Content Security Policy 1.1 concurrently with moving 1.0 on the Recommendation track. Suggestions for features in 1.1 should go to the wiki at: http://www.w3.org/Security/wiki/Content_Security_Policy. Experimental implementations to accompany such suggestions are highly encouraged. A brainstorm list of proposed directives is also available at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CSP/Strawman

Editors' Resources

General/Process Resources

Patent Disclosures

W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent.

Charter and History

The WebAppSec Working Group operates under its initial charter.

Working Group Participants

See: DBWG and IPP