Web Authentication Working Group

John Fontana
Anthony Nadalin^[1]

Parent organization

W3CWebsiteOfficial website

The Web Authentication Working Group, created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on February 17, 2016, has for mission, in the Security Activity, to define a client-side API providing strong authentication functionality to Web Applications.^[1]

On 20 March 2018, the WebAuthn standard was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Web Authentication Working Group Charter". W3C. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
^ "Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials - Level 2". www.w3.org. Retrieved April 12, 2018.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Products and
standards

Recommendations	ActivityPub Activity Streams ARIA Canonical XML CDF CSS Animations Flexbox Grid DOM Geolocation API HTML HTML5 IndexedDB ITS JSON-LD Linked Data Notifications MathML Micropub OWL PLS RDF Schema SISR SKOS SMIL SOAP SRGS SRI SSML SVG Filter Effects SCXML SHACL SPARQL Timed text VoiceXML WoT TD Web storage WSDL Webmention WebSub XHTML +RDFa XML Base Encryption Events Information Set Namespace Schema Signature XForms XInclude XLink XOP XPath 2.0 3.x XPointer XProc XQuery XSL XSL-FO XSLT elements
Notes	IndieAuth XAdES XBL XHTML+SMIL XUP
Working drafts	CCXML CURIE EME InkML MSE RIF SMIL Timesheets sXBL WebGPU WebXR XFDL XFrames XMLHttpRequest
Guidelines	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Initiative	Markup Validation Service Web Accessibility Initiative Web Components
Deprecated	C-HTML HDML JSSS PGML VML WebPlatform
Obsoleted	P3P XHTML+MathML+SVG

Organizations

World Wide Web Foundation
Working groups	TAG CSS SVG WebAssembly WebAuthn WHATWG
Community & business groups	Web Advertising BG WebAssembly CG
Closed groups	Device Description (DDWG) HTML Multimodal Interaction Activity (MMI)