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We are proud to announce that on 2014-03-05, the set of drafts for the following specifications:
W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
If you have any questions, please contact the group on their public list: [email protected].
At the EID conference in Switzerland at the end of March 2012 I presented WebID and eCommerce, where I argued that commerce is based on an institutional web of trust, which if declared using linked data could allow the flourishing of eCommerce using WebID.
The WebID Group has been working hard over the years on developing decentralised access control.
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<p id="group-closed">This group was closed on 2024-07-09.</p>
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<p>This group is now closed. The WebID Community Group was a continuation of the WebID Incubator Group [1]. The Community Group developed a specification for the WebID protocol, built test suites, documented use case, issues, and grew the community of implementations.</p>
<p>[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/</p>
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