Solid Authorization Panel

The mission of the Authorization Panel as part of the W3C Solid Community Group (CG) is to produce candidate proposals to the Solid ecosystem of specifications that satisfy use cases and requirements related to authorizing access to data in a Solid Pod.

Work Items

Work Item	Repository	Expected Completion
Authorization Use Cases and Requirements	https://github.com/solid/authorization-panel	TBD
Authorization Use Cases Survey	https://github.com/solid/authorization-panel	TBD
Access Control Policy	https://github.com/solid/authorization-panel	TBD

The Authorization Panel is undertaking the following initiatives, in priority order:

1. Document use cases and requirements for authorization (Source).
2. Produce an authorization system specification to satisfy those use cases and requirements.
3. Propose mechanism(s) for client constraints.

Participation

All contributors to any Work Items must be members of the Solid CG. It’s easy to join the CG.

Anyone can join the Authorization Panel chat.

The work items of the Authorization Panel are discussed during the following Solid Community Group meetings.

• General meetings: every Wednesday from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC
• Special topic meetings: tentative on Tuesdays from 14:00 to 16:00 UTC

Both meetings take place in the solid-cg Jitsi room.

Please refer to the Solid Community Group calendar and the Special Topic Meetings schedule for more information. Every meeting is also announced on [Matrix](https://gitter.im/solid/specification), with a link to its agenda.

Code of Conduct

All work and communication within the Solid CG is covered by the Solid Code of Conduct and the Positive Work Environment at W3C: Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.