Solid and its standardization in W3C

Pierre-Antoine Champin

Solid in a nutshell

Benefits

of decoupling data from applications →

Solid so far

• Solid Project
• W3C Solid Community Group

Standardizing Solid

A charter for a Solid Working Group was proposed to the W3C members in September 2023, focusing on the Solid Protocol specification.

Unfortunately, it was rejected by the W3C members.

Work on a new charter proposal

• Better frame the problem space of the Working Group
  ≠ problem space of Solid
• Clarify the relationship with other groups/standards (ActivityPub, DID, FedCM, HTTP WG @ IETF...)
• Insist on the fact that Solid mostly builds on existing technologies, but uses them in novel ways