W3C Newsletter:January/February 2006

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Upcoming Events: 

 

Registration is open for the W3C Technical Plenary, 27 February - 3 March,
Mandelieu, France

Registration will close by 17 February 2006

http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html

 

W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web, 9-10 March, Keio University, Tokyo,
Japan

Position papers are due 10 February 2006

Registration will close by 24 February 2006

http://www.w3.org/2005/10/ubiweb-workshop-cfp.html

 

W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication, 15-16
March, New York, USA

Position papers are due 25 January 2006

http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/

 <http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html> 

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Technical News: 

 

Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles

The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four Last Call
Working Drafts: Compound Document by
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CDR-20051219/>  Reference Framework, WICD
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WICD-20051219/>  Core 1.0, WICD
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WICDFull-20051219/>  Full 1.0, and WICD
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WICDMobile-20051219/>  Mobile 1.0. Comments
are welcome through 27 January.

 

Last Call: Mobile Web Best Practices

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call Working
Draft of Mobile Web <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-mobile-bp-20060113/>  Best
Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites
intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Written for all
participants in the mobile value chain, the document is designed to improve
user experience. Comments are welcome through 17 February.

 

Candidate Recommendation: Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition
(SISR) 1.0

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Semantic Interpretation
for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-semantic-interpretation-20060111/>  language
to Candidate Recommendation. The specification describes ECMAScript-based
annotations to grammar rules for extracting meaning from speech recognition.
SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in the Speech
Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as serialized XML or
ECMAScript variables. Comments are welcome through 20 February.

 

Candidate Recommendations: Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 2.0

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Web Services Description
Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 specifications to Candidate Recommendations:
Part 0: Primer <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-primer-20060106/> , Part
1: Core Language <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-20060106/>  and Part
2: <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-wsdl20-adjuncts-20060106/>  Adjuncts.
Comments are welcome through 15 March.

 


XKMS Activity Completes Work and Closes

W3C is pleased to announce that the XML Key Management (XKMS) Working Group
has successfully completed its work: the W3C Recommendation XML Key
Management Specification (XKMS 2.0)
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xkms2-20050628/>  and its companion Bindings
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-xkms2-bindings-20050628/>  and Requirements
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-xkms2-req-20030505>  as well as the Working
Group Notes Using XKMS <http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xkms-pgp-20051219/>
with PGP and A WSDL 1.1 description for XKMS
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xkms-wsdl-20051118/> . With XKMS, users can
share public key identity across applications, systems and trust boundaries.

 

Working Draft: XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes

The XML Schema Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xmlschema11-2-20060116/>  Schema 1.1 Part 2:
Datatypes. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of
XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate
semantics with them. With XML Schema Part 2, datatypes may be defined for
use in XML schemas as well as other contexts.

 

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