The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) is a special working group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) created in 2001[1] to:[2][3][4] The TAG consists of inventor of the Web and W3C director Sir Tim Berners-Lee, engineers elected by W3C member organizations, as well as participants directly appointed by Tim Berners-Lee.
The primary focus of the first three years of the TAG was on documenting in a clear and easily understood manner the architectural foundations of the Web.
[10] It is written in a relatively informal style, with illustrations, and many of its conclusions are expressed in succinct 'principles', 'constraints' and 'good practice notes', such as: After this publication and until 2012, the work of the TAG primarily resulted in publishing Findings documents, centered around XML, RDF, and URIs.
[5] In February 2019, Google requested a TAG design review of their First Party Sets proposal[33] as required per their shipping policy.
[37] This follows earlier public statements by the TAG about prioritizing user security and privacy when conducting design reviews.