There are a number of architectural principles that underlie the development of the World Wide Web. Some of these are well-known; others are less well-known or accepted. It is important for the growth and interoperability of the Web that these principles be documented and generally agreed to. The W3C created its Technical Architecture Group (TAG) to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.

This town hall will permit the audience to discuss the TAG's "Architectural Recommendations" made in 2003 and to its major output document "Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web".