Web Application Security Working Group

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Mission

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

Mailing List

The group's primary work mode is via discussion on a public mailing list: public-webappsec@w3.org | Subscribe | List Archives

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Teleconferences

WebAppSec conducts a one hour, members-only teleconference every two weeks. See the calendar of events for the most current dates and times and dial-in details.

Participants in the teleconference are encouraged to please also join the #webappsec channel during the call. Connect to irc.w3.org:6665 with your favorite IRC client or use the web interface.

Minutes for teleconferences and face-to-face meeetings are archived here.

Bugs, Issues & Actions

Please use the WG's GitHub repo or the GitHub issues link in each spec to manage spec text bugs and pull requests. (technical issues and feature requests must go through the public mailing list first)

Recommendation-Track Drafts

Complete ED TR
Content Security Policy Level 1 NOTE: /TR/CSP1
Subresource Integrity webappsec-subresource-integrity REC: /TR/SRI/
Content Security Policy Level 2 webappsec-csp REC: /TR/CSP2
Stable ED TR
Mixed Content webappsec-mixed-content CR: /TR/mixed-content/
Upgrade Insecure Requests webappsec-upgrade-insecure-requests WD: /TR/upgrade-insecure-requests/
Secure Contexts webappsec-secure-contexts CR: /TR/powerful-features/
Referrer Policy webappsec-referrer-policy CR: /TR/referrer-policy/
Stabilizing ED TR
Credential Management Level 1 webappsec-credential-management WD: /TR/credential-management/
Permissions API permissions FPWD: /TR/permissions/
Content Security Policy Level 3 webappsec-csp WD: /TR/CSP
Works in Progress ED TR
Clear Site Data webappsec-clear-site-data FPWD: /TR/clear-site-data/
Confinement with Origin Web Labels webappsec-cowl FPWD: /TR/cowl/
CSP Pinning webappsec-csp FPWD: /TR/csp-pinning/
Entry Point Regulation webappsec-epr FPWD: /TR/epr/

W3C Recommendations

Recommendation
15-December-2016
Mike West, Dan Veditz, Adam Barth
Mike West, Brad Hill
Recommendation
16-January-2014
Anne van Kesteren
Joint publication with WebApps WG. Succeeded by: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#http-cors-protocol
Recommendation
23-June-2016
Frederik Braun, Devdatta Akhawe, Joel Weinberger, Francois Marier,Mike West

Non-Recommendation-Track Documents

(Proposed) Working Group Note
15-October-2016
Brad Hill
Working Group Note (deprecated)
19-February-2015
Brandon Sterne, Adam Barth
Succeeded by Content Security Policy Level 2
Working Group Note
26-January-2010
Tyler Close, Mark Miller
Input document for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing from WebApps WG
No offical status
04-February-2011
John Kemp
Input and reference document
Working Group Note (deprecated)
13-September-2016
Mike West
Working Group Note (deprecated)
13-September-2016
David Ross, Mike West
Working Group Note (deprecated)
16-September-2016
Mike West

Administrative

Charter

The WebAppSec Working Group operates under a charter approved on 22 March 2017.

Patent Disclosures

The 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.

Chairs

Daniel Veditz (Mozilla) and Mike West (Google)

W3C Team Contacts

Wendy Seltzer and Samuel Weiler

Membership

(W3C Member-Only) See DBWG and IPP for a list of WG participants.

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Liasons with Other Groups

Members and the public interested in this WG's work may also want to follow the W3C Web Security Interest Group and Web Authentication Working Group as well as the Websec Working Group at the IETF.