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<h1><img alt="Portrait of Rigo" src="rigo2.jpg" /> Rigo Wenning</h1>
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<h3 id="tasks">My work @ W3C</h3>
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  <li><h4>Legal Counsel</h4>
    <p>As <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>'s Legal
    Counsel I give advice to the management on most legal aspects of the
    Consortium's operations. This includes contractual relationsships,
    licensing, consulting in legal matters, strategy planning and steering of
    litigation. By default, W3C's Legal Counsel is also the chair of all Patent
    Advisory Groups created. Patent Advisory Groups address issues created by
    essential patent claims reading on W3C Technologies. </p>
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  <li><h4>Privacy Activity Lead</h4>
    <p>I am also <a href="../../Privacy/Overview.html">W3C's Privacy Activity
    Lead</a>. I was staff contact for <a href="../../P3P/Overview.html">P3P</a>
    from 1999 until 2006. <a href="../../TR/P3P11/">P3P 1.1 is now published as
    a Working Group Note</a>, but work on privacy continues. I coordinated
    W3C's efforts in European privacy research, namely in the <a
    href="https://www.prime-project.eu/">PRIME Project</a> (2004-2008) and the
    <a href="http://www.primelife.eu/">PrimeLife Project</a> (2008-2011). I
    organized several Workshops on Privacy: </p>
    <ul>
      <li>2006: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/privacy-ws/">W3C Workshop on
        Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven
        Enforcement</a></li>
      <li>2009: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/">W3C Workshop on
        Access Control Application Scenarios</a></li>
      <li>2010: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/policy-ws/">W3C Workshop on
        Privacy and data usage control</a></li>
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    <p>I was involved in the organization of the following Workshops</p>
    <ul>
      <li>2010: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/">W3C Workshop
        on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs</a></li>
      <li>2011: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/">W3C Workshop on
        Web Tracking and User Privacy</a></li>
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    <p>I tried to clarify my position with a <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/papers/privacy-ws-37.html">paper
    to the API Workshop</a>. But evidently this does not cover all aspects of
    Privacy on the Web. </p>
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  <li><h4>European governmental relations</h4>
    <p>In Europe, there is a roundtable of standardization organizations called
    the Information and Communication Technologies Standards Board <a
    href="http://www.ictsb.org/">(ICTSB)</a>. I'm the official representative
    of <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> at the <acronym
    title="Information and            Communication Technologies Standards Board">ICTSB</acronym>.
    This implies multiple relationsships to the <acronym
    title="Recognized European Standardization Organizations">ESOs </acronym>:
    <a href="http://www.cen.eu/cenorm/homepage.htm"><acronym
    title="Comité Européen de Normalisation">CEN</acronym></a>, <a
    href="http://www.cenelec.org/Cenelec/Homepage.htm"><acronym
    title="Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique">CENELEC</acronym></a>
    &amp; <a href="http://www.etsi.org/home_a.htm"><acronym
    title="European Telecommunications Standards Institute">ETSI</acronym></a>
    and to the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm">European
    Commission</a>. Recently, I participated in an EU Study on the specific
    policy needs for ICT standardisation as a member of the Steering Group. The
    study let to a <a
    href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/files/ict/policy/standards/whitepaper_en.pdf">whitepaper</a>.
    The whitepaper was the basis for a <a
    href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/standardisation-policy/index_en.htm">legal
    package</a> for the renovation of the standardization system in Europe.</p>
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  <li><h4>Policy Analysis</h4>
    <p>Finally, I'm doing some policy analysis for the Technology &amp; Society
    Domain, looking at background information and discussing strategies. </p>
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<h3 id="contact">Contact information</h3>
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  <dt>Email:</dt>
    <dd><a href="mailto:rigo@w3.org" rel="foaf:mbox">rigo@w3.org</a> </dd>
  <dt>Postal address:</dt>
    <dd><strong><a href="http://www.ercim.org/" class="fn org url"><abbr
      title="European              Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</abbr></a></strong>
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      <p><span class="street-address">2004, route des Lucioles</span><br />
      <span class="extended-address">BP 93</span><br />
      <span class="postal-code">06902</span> <span
      class="locality">Sophia-Antipolis</span> Cedex <br />
      <strong class="country-name">France</strong></p>
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  <dt>PGP/GPG:</dt>
    <dd>My <a rel="wot:pubkeyAddress" href="rigokey.html">GnuPGP key and
      signature</a> is available on-line.</dd>
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<h3 id="bio">Short Bio</h3>

<p>I studied Law at the University of Saarland (Germany) and Nancy II(France)
and passed the first german law state examination 1992 in Saarbrücken.
Subsequently, in german law studies, there is an extensive internship that I
accomplished from 1992 - 1995. During this time, I was also a research
assistant to the <a href="http://witz.jura.uni-saarland.de/index-fr.htm">chair
of french civil law of Prof. Dr. Claude Witz</a> mainly focusing on
International Civil Law, French Law and with a certain interest for <q>Droit
local</q>, a mixture of french and old german law in the departements of Alsace
and Moselle. In parallel, I was working with the <a
href="http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/">Law Web Saarbrücken</a>, one of the very
early law related portals. I'm still involved in this project. This forced me
into the legal issues of the Internet which turned into the center of my
interest. After the second state examination, I moved on to the Institute for
penal law and worked on arbitration, mediation and data protection. <br />
Beginning of 1997 I moved on to the <a
href="http://rechtsinformatik.jura.uni-sb.de/en/index.html">Institute of Law
and Informatics</a> thus combining my education on international law with the
international legal issues of the Internet. One of the last projects I was
involved with for the Institute of Computing and Law was the web site of
Germany's <a href="https://www.bverfg.de/en/index.html">Federal Constitutional
Court</a>. <br />
I joined W3C in 1999 with a focus on Privacy, Security and European
governmental affairs. While the initial work was mostly technical, my law
background became more and more useful to the Consortium over time. In 2006
I became W3C's staff counsel and in 2007 the Legal counsel. </p>

<h3 id="out">Dormant or out of area Interests</h3>
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  <li><h4>Security</h4>
    <p>As data protection in the initial sense also includes data security, I
    cover sometimes <a href="http://www.w3.org/Security/">Thomas Roessler from
    the Security Activity</a> if he is not available. My initial interest was
    the securing of documents from a legal point of view. The paper-society
    secures documents with hand-written signatures. I followed most of the
    evolution in this area and was an observer to ETSI TC ESI since 1999. </p>
    <p>My main interest in Security slided from this initial crypto-centered
    securing of documents to the notion of identity and trust. In fact, the
    work on P3P raised many issues around <q>Identity</q> and P3P 1.1 contains
    a revised chapter about identity and identification. Now, we see social
    networking sites, things like FOAF and the systematic googling of persons
    before a decision is made about them. This raises many issues if one takes
    the human rights question into account. So allowing people to express and
    trade trust on the one hand and still permit some privacy and right to be
    left alone is a challenge. My main interest in this area is to leverage the
    Semantic Web to address this field of constant tension between opposite
    goals. </p>
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  <li><h4>Rights Management</h4>
    <p>DRM is and will remain a hot topic simply because there is so much money
    involved in content creation, trading and distribution. It is clear that in
    an information society, the decision on content distribution is a decision
    on power in this society. DRM is just another constraint to the information
    flow, like privacy and access control. So there is some communalities with
    data protection. Like in the trust/reputation scenario, the evaluation of
    social consequences of a certain type of technology is of prime interest to
    me. Today's DRM systems default to <q>closed</q> and it is a large effort
    for the content provider to give a liberal license. This shows the bias in
    design caused by the angry requirements of a certain industry. But for me,
    Creative Commons is DRM too as it carries special semantics Now you might
    understand that issues related to Security and to Privacy lead to some
    interest into <acronym
    title="Digital            Rights Management">DRM</acronym>. I kept an eye
    on DRM after the successful organization of a <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/">DRM Workshop for W3C in 2001</a>
    (that still is a landmark IMHO).</p>
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<h3>Outline</h3>
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  <li><a href="#tasks">My Work @ W3C</a></li>
  <li><a href="#contact">Contact Info</a></li>
  <li><a href="#bio">Short Bio</a></li>
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<h3>Interesting personal links</h3>
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  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/P3P/">Privacy @ W3C</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/pp/">Patent Policy</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/">Juristisches Internetprojekt
    Saarbrücken</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://lawgical.jura.uni-sb.de">Lawgical</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.fitug.de">FITUG e.V.</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://admi.net">Adminet</a></li>
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