Tantek Çelik<p>Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat:<br><br><br>Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions.<br> <br>A technical proposal should not be praised for what it claims to solve.<br> <br>A technical proposal must be evaluated by what marginal difference or advantage does it provide over existing technologies.<br> <br>Any technical proposal that ignores prior technologies is itself doomed to be ignored by the next technical proposal.<br><br><br>In addition to the slide presentations (links to come) in the mini workshop and Zoom verbal discussion which was minuted (link to come), there was a lot of very interesting discussion in the Zoom chat, which was not minuted. Sometimes such quick back &amp; forth can help inspire summarizing of points which one had not previously written down. <br><br>I was encouraged by a fellow workshop participant to blog this one so here it is!<br><br><a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/W3C" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span class="p-category">W3C</span></a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/credweb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span class="p-category">credweb</span></a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/credibleWeb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span class="p-category">credibleWeb</span></a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/authenticWeb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span class="p-category">authenticWeb</span></a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/technology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span class="p-category">technology</span></a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/technical" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span class="p-category">technical</span></a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/proposal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span class="p-category">proposal</span></a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/technicalProposal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span class="p-category">technicalProposal</span></a> <a class="" href="https://indieweb.social/tags/history" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span class="p-category">history</span></a></p>