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  1. Thanks for raising this issue https://github.com/michaelchampion.

    As co-chair of the Sustainability Community Group (https://www.w3.org/community/sustainability/participants) I am happy to champion it.

    I believe the first of your proposals is sufficient to resolve the specific subject of this issue, which is to add a sustainability principle or value in the Vision, and link to the TAG Ethical Web Principle of Sustainability accordingly.

    In particular, PROPOSED:

    * Add "The Web must be an environmentally sustainable platform" as a fifth item in the "Vision for the World-Wide Web" section, and link the phrase “environmentally sustainable platform” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#sustainable

    I suggest this proposal be considered in the context of my proposed resolution to #5: https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues/5#issuecomment-1524210555 as I believe it is consistent with and adds to that proposal.

    If the Vision Task Force RESOLVES on this proposal, I am happy to create a PR for the edit accordingly.

    For the remaining points https://github.com/michaelchampion raised of adding specific text for “energy consumed by web infrastructure” and crafting new text for the "We will do this by" section, I’d like to do that as subsequent proposals and edits, presuming the task force resolves on the above granular proposal, if that‘s ok with https://github.com/michaelchampion.

    I’m ok with keeping this issue open for that, or (preferably) closing this issue per the title being resolved, and opening new issues for considering creating "how to" text for sustainability.

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  2. Since it is now past the end of 2022, and no further async comments were made on this issue, I am PROPOSING as promised more specifically to resolve this issue:

    * link the phrase “good of its users” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#noharm
    * link the phrase “safe for its users” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#privacy (which includes security)

    In addition, since those are only two of the four items in the “Vision for the World-Wide Web” section, and it would read more consistently if all four items were linked to respective TAG EWP points, I PROPOSE to make these two additional changes in the same edit:

    * link the phrase “all humanity” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#allpeople
    * link the phrase “one interoperable world-wide Web” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#oneweb

    While we may want to consider linking other TAG EWP points in other parts of the document, for the purposes of resolving this issue in a discrete manner, I believe it is sufficient and correct to incrementally make this set of four edits as a net improvement (and close out an old issue), while allowing other issues to be filed for additional discrete improvements.

    If the Vision Task Force RESOLVES on these proposals, I am happy to create a PR for the edits accordingly.

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  3. Closing this PR as lacking consensus, and shifting discussion to an issue as suggested.

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  4. Vision: add malvertising to explicit mentions of known web harms

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    Filing this as an issue for discussion since we did not have immediate consensus on a minor edit PR (and closing that PR accordingly https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/pull/49, to shift discussion here). As part of the goal of transparently admitting significant existing harms of the web, it makes sense to add “malvertising” somewhere near misinformation to the Introduction, per https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software/ for example. Note this is a "modern" (year 2000+) problem, and the term itself is clearly defined in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising (which we could add as a reference in the glossary as part of work on https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues/1).

    The PR discussion had a few suggestions for how to add “malvertising” as a known harm, and they are worth considering in my opinion.

    From https://github.com/frivoal:

    … generalize a little, for example by grouping this for instance with phishing as well. Both problems seem to be somewhat similar in that they take advantage of the web's broad reach, as well as its general (but imperfect) trustworthiness to show deceptive and harmful content to vast amounts of unsuspecting viewers, some of whom will fall for the trick and cause themselves harm in the process.

    From https://github.com/cwilso:

    … malvertising is a harm, but I believe it should come in the "how" section - in fact, I'm not clear how we would directly be addressing malvertising. The most I'd be comfortable with here is adding the suggestion of "deceptive practices" after misinformation, but I still don't think that's an improvement.

    Label: Vision

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