Values need further specificity

[cwilso]

originally filed at WebStandardsFuture/Vision#39.

[tantek]

Original issue both has some points and may be requesting more detail than is appropriate for a Vision document.

Per the one response on the original issue, I’m not sure how to adequately address this issue either, except to perhaps consider linking to more detailed documents regarding “good of its users” and “safe for its users”, though I’m not certain enough about that approach to propose resolving in that manner. That is, this issue may merit some additional time and thoughtful consideration to come up with ways to address the points the original issue creator brought up.

Proposed resolution:

• keep this issue open to asynchronous discussion til the end of the year 2022. If it hasn’t made progress by then, consider linking the phrases “good of its users” and “safe for its users” to other related documents at W3C such as the TAG Ethical Web Principles https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/ethical-web-principles/

Alternatively, if the AB deems that consideration (just linking those phrases to the TAG Ethical Web Principles) sufficient now, I would be ok with making edits to the Vision accordingly and closing the issue.

(Originally published at: https://tantek.com/2022/227/t8/)

[tantek]

Since it is now past the end of 2022, and no further async comments were made on this issue, I am PROPOSING as promised more specifically to resolve this issue:

• link the phrase “good of its users” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#noharm
• link the phrase “safe for its users” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#privacy (which includes security)

In addition, since those are only two of the four items in the “Vision for the World-Wide Web” section, and it would read more consistently if all four items were linked to respective TAG EWP points, I PROPOSE to make these two additional changes in the same edit:

• link the phrase “all humanity” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#allpeople
• link the phrase “one interoperable world-wide Web” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#oneweb

While we may want to consider linking other TAG EWP points in other parts of the document, for the purposes of resolving this issue in a discrete manner, I believe it is sufficient and correct to incrementally make this set of four edits as a net improvement (and close out an old issue), while allowing other issues to be filed for additional discrete improvements.

If the Vision Task Force RESOLVES on these proposals, I am happy to create a PR for the edits accordingly.

(Originally published at: https://tantek.com/2023/116/t2/)

[cwilso]

Sounds good to me.