In order to improve the present situation there is a tremendous amount of work to be done. I believe it would be useful if we could start by suggesting what it is that we would like to see done as soon as possible. The encryption and protection schema should be standard. The consortium is addressing a number of important issues.
Security is a hot topic, and the subject of the first formal working group.
The goal is to reach consensus on a set of standards that provide adequate functionality and that interoperate among all the WWW software providers. A second issue, for which a working group is also organised, concerns cooperative work. If the Web is to serve broader functions, we will need to develop a richer language of actions, for example at least to update information. An important architectural principle should be that anything doable by a user can be done by a program. Then, as we develop conventional ways of using the Web, we can abstract such usage to produce new routine functions.