W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era

October 2026 paper by the W3C Strategy Team, prepared by Philippe Le Hégaret, on how the Web's standards must change as AI agents act for users: agents prefer text and structured data to HTML, JSON-LD, RDF, DCAT and ODRL become more valuable as inputs and guardrails for agents, and Verifiable Credentials and DIDs can identify agents and whom they act for.

Read the memo ↗ W3C

Also at w3.org/news/2026/w3c-and-the-state-of-the-web-in-the-ai-era

Part of threads Agents acting for us proposes; Why would anyone add structure? measures

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• World Wide Web Consortium organization 1994 [src]

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• Philippe Le Hégaret person [src]