w3bsTHE INITIAL STANDARDS SET
Common ground.
Open questions.
Eight specifications for a full-surface Web. Start with the implemented protocol drafts, then help shape what comes next.
Founding stage · All specifications are proposals or community drafts. No W3BS Recommendations have been issued.
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W3BS-URI-1
Community Draft02One address. Every surface.
Canonical resource identifiers, namespaces and version selection.
W3BS-MANIFEST-1
Community Draft03A resource you can inspect.
Identity, content, permissions, provenance and signed integrity.
W3BS-RESOLVE-1
Community Draft04Find it. Resolve it. Verify it.
Discovery, deterministic resolution and transport-independent identity.
W3BS-SURFACE-1
Proposal05The same meaning, everywhere.
Shared operations across interfaces and conformance evidence.
W3BS-PROMPT-1
Proposal06Instructions that travel.
Portable prompts, declared inputs and behavior packages.
W3BS-TRUST-1
Proposal07Trust is explicit.
Signatures, provenance and the boundary between data and authority.
W3BS-DELEGATION-1
Proposal08Authority with boundaries.
Consent, scopes, expiration and revocation of delegated permissions.
W3BS-DISCOVERY-1
ProposalA front door for machines.
A well-known bootstrap document and future discovery profiles.