# Peer-to-Peer Web Community group

**The purpose of the Peer-to-Peer Web Community Group is to develop specifications for integrating peer-to-peer networking protocols with a goal of enabling direct (browser-to-browser) secure web sites / applications that allow participants to host, own, store, share, and collaborate on data without server intermediaries.**

The group will foster community agency: creating conditions for civil discourse, human dignity, and individual expression independent of corporate and legal structures. The group will work with developers aligned with these values towards standards that incentivize empowering, safe, and independent online experiences for all participants, and disincentivize abusive behaviors (e.g. doxxing, harassment) and harmful consequences (e.g. massive privacy violations) for people and communities at the margins. This approach may help further decentralized web technologies by working out how to minimize harm before the technologies are deployed.

As proposals gain support and become more stable and mature, they will be considered for migration to a W3C Working Group where they can be put on the Recommendation track with appropriate status and Intellectual Property (IP) considerations.

#### Out of scope:
* Blockchain approaches - see https://www.w3.org/community/blockchain/
* Semantic Web approaches - see https://solid.mit.edu/
* Web-RTC - while protocols developed in this CG may enable real-time use-cases like peer-to-peer chat, this group will avoid requiring a server to do so, including setup.

#### Liasons
* Social Web CG - where specs from the Social Web WG are maintained, has overlap in high level concepts of decentralized web, but specs focus on decentralized web server to server p2p protocols and formats. Can likely share and collaborate on use-cases, vocabularies, and bridging, e.g. Webmention/DAT bridge prototype demonstrated at IndieWebSummit 2018.