W3C Public Newsletter, 2010-12-06

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Incubator Group Report: A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware
Social Web

   06 December 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8969

   The W3C Social Web Incubator Group has published their final
   report. The mission of the Incubator Group was to understand
   the systems and technologies that permit the description and
   identification of people, groups, organizations, and
   user-generated content in extensible and privacy-respecting
   ways. The report describes a framework for understanding the
   Social Web and many relevant standards (from both within and
   outside the W3C), and concludes by proposing a strategy for
   making the Social Web a "first-class citizen" of the Web. The
   report recommends that the W3C should offer resources to start
   a Federated Social Web Incubator Group, and that the W3C host a
   workshop to investigate identity in the browser with existing
   communities in order to determine how digital identity fits
   into the One Web platform. This publication is part of the
   Incubator Activity, a forum where W3C Members can innovate and
   experiment. This work is not on the W3C standards track.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/XGR-socialweb/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/

Technical Architecture Group Participants Announced

   01 December 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8966

   W3C announces the results of this year's Technical Architecture
   Group (TAG) election process: Peter Linss (HP), Ashok Malhotra
   (Oracle), and Larry Masinter (Adobe) all begin 2-year terms on
   1 February 2011. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus
   around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and
   clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues
   involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG, and to
   help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments
   inside and outside W3C. Peter, Ashok, and Larry join fellow TAG
   members Dan Appelquist (Vodafone), Jonathan Rees (Creative
   Commons), and Henry Thompson (U. of Edinburgh). Noah Mendelsohn
   (unaffiliated) and Tim Berners-Lee co-Chair the TAG. There
   remains one seat for appointment by the Director. Learn more
   about the TAG.

   http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
   http://www.w3.org/2004/10/27-tag-charter.html#Mission
   http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/

Last Call: XML Encryption, Signature 1.1

   30 November 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8965

   The XML Security Working Group has published a Last Call
   Working Drafts of "XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version
   1.1" and "XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1."
   The former specifies a process for encrypting data and
   representing the result in XML. The latter specifies XML
   digital signature processing rules and syntax. XML Signatures
   provide integrity, message authentication, and/or signer
   authentication services for data of any type, whether located
   within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere. See
   the explanation of "XML encryption changes" and "XML signature
   changes." Comments are welcome through 22 December. Learn more
   about the Security Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlenc-core1-20101130/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmldsig-core1-20101130/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlenc-core1-20101130/explain
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmldsig-core1-20101130/explain
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

Last Call: XML Processor Profiles

   30 November 2010 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8964

   The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Last
   Call Working Draft of "XML Processor Profiles." This
   specification defines several XML processor profiles, each of
   which fully determines a data model for any given XML document.
   It is intended as a resource for other specifications, which
   can by a single normative reference establish precisely what
   input processing they require. Comments are welcome through 14
   January. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xml-proc-profiles-20101130/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

   More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

Workshops

     * 2010-12-08 ( 8 DEC) – 2010-12-09 ( 9 DEC)
       How can Technology help to improve Privacy on the Internet?
       http://www.iab.org/about/workshops/privacy/
       Cambridge, MA, USA
       Jointly organized by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB),
       Internet Society (ISOC), MIT, and W3C
       Who we are (e.g. our thoughts, dreams, feelings, DNA
       sequence), what we own (such as financial property), what
       we have experienced and how we behave
       (audio/visual/olfactory transcripts), and how we can be
       reached (location, endpoint identifiers) are among the most
       personal pieces of information about us. More and more of
       this information is being digitized and made available
       electronically. The question for us therefore is: How can
       we ensure that architectures and technologies for the
       Internet, including the World Wide Web, are developed in a
       way that respects users’ privacy?
     * 2011-02-08 ( 8 FEB) – 2011-02-09 ( 9 FEB)
       W3C Web and TV Workshop
       http://www.w3.org/2010/11/web-and-tv/
       Berlin, Germany
       Hosted by Fraunhofer-Fokus
       The IT industry is building the future Web platform at W3C.
       HTML5, CSS, SVG, and other open global standards for Web
       technology are starting to be deployed in browsers, and the
       Web community is enthusiastic about host of new features
       such as location-based services. W3C is organizing this
       workshop to bring the television industry and other
       producers of consumer electronics into the discussion.
       Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to
       share their own perspectives, requirements, and ideas to
       ensure that emerging global standards meet their needs.

W3C Blog

     * High Performance Web Socket Server
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/12/high_performance_web_socket_se
       4 December 2010 by Dave Raggett
     * Progress in Lyon - TPAC 2010
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/11/progress_in_lyon_-_tpac_2010
       29 November 2010 by Jeff Jaffe
       http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/

Upcoming Talks

     * 2010-12-10 (10 DEC)
       Functional Accessibility
       http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/12-10-steven-functional-access
       ibility/
       by Steven Pemberton
       Webrichtlijnen 2 en WCAG2.0
       http://www.accessibility.nl/algemeen/nieuws?id=245
       Zeist, The Netherlands
     * 2010-12-15 (15 DEC)
       W3C: An Open Platform for Web Standardisation
       http://www.w3.org/2010/12/dd-w3c
       by Daniel Dardailler
       Future of the Internet, Standardization Workshop
       http://standardization-ghent.fi-week.eu/
       Ghent, Belgium
     * 2011-01-17 (17 JAN)
       État des travaux en cours au W3C et perspectives
       http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0117-Paris-IH/
       keynote by Ivan Herman
       1ères journées professionnelles du Web Sémantique
       http://www.semweb.pro/
       Paris, France

W3C Membership

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New Members

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     * Iranian Consortium of National Content

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