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From: Aaron Coburn Motivation and Background
They are largely based on existing open web standards, which they extend to give priority to individual and group autonomy.
The W3C Solid Community Group has been incubating specifications since 2018 towards that end, i.e., "to describe the interoperability between different classes of products by using web communication protocols, global identifiers, authentication and authorization mechanisms, data formats and shapes, notifications, and query interfaces." - It has regularly sought cross-fertilization with the aforementioned communities, among others (e.g., the Credentials Community Group (CCG), the Federated Identity Working Group, and the Social Web Incubator Community Group).
+ It has regularly sought cross-fertilization with the aforementioned communities, among others (e.g., the Credentials Community Group (CCG), the Federated Identity Community Group, the Social Web Incubator Community Group, and the Web Platform Incubator Community Group (WICG)).The broader Solid community has developed a suite of implementations, tools, and libraries for developers, as well as applications for users. Also see an explainer for more detailed description of the Solid approach.