Originally posted at: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2026May/0043.html

At today's meeting, we adopted an initial draft of the Groups TF report.

Currently, it includes:

• An introduction to what a "group" is, and how it might be distinguished from other usages of the term "group" across various specs and prior art, with relations to other work and other task forces

• Some preliminary terms regarding membership and being a Member

• Some initial user stories, with more to come -- our GitHub issue tracker contains issues that need to be reviewed for user stories, and any user stories missing from the report will be eventually added. (If you have user stories to contribute that don't currently have their own issue, please file issues for those!)

• Potential approaches on how to become a member. Discussion in today's meeting revolved around questions such as whether followers and members are or should be distinct, and what the properties of a membership are vs properties of an actor. Information from this discussion will hopefully be incorporated into the draft by next month, as well as expanded rationale for the distinction and the properties.

This post is soliciting feedback and participation from anyone interested in the work being done on Groups. Please provide any feedback in GitHub issues and/or on the mailing list.

RESOLVED: adopt https://swicg.github.io/groups/ as first working draft of TF report.

If there are any objections, please raise them within the next 2 weeks.