- From: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 21:38:55 -0700
- To: w3c-announce@w3.org
W3C Weekly News Week of 25 September - 1 October 2001 Patent Policy Review Period Extended 1 October 2001: The Patent Policy Working Group released the "W3C Patent Policy Framework" as a Last Call Working Draft on 16 August. The draft proposes changes to the W3C process and Member Agreements, including licensing modes for W3C Working Groups, disclosure obligations, licensing commitments, and a procedure for variances. Thanks to requests from the Web community, the W3C Team has extended a public and Member review period. Comments are welcome through 11 October. Learn more in the backgrounder, the response to public comments, and the Patent Policy FAQ. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-patent-policy-20010816/ http://www.w3.org/2001/08/patentnews http://www.w3.org/2001/10/patent-response http://www.w3.org/2001/08/16-PP-FAQ W3C Team Presentations in October 1 October 2001: On 1 October, Henry Thompson gave a keynote at XML Days in Budapest, Hungary. On 13 October, Ivan Herman presents an "Overview of W3C Technologies" at "Day of the Greek W3C Office" in Thessaloniki, Greece. On 16 October, Charles McCathieNevile speaks on the Semantic Web and use cases for the British Computer Society's Specialist Group. On 26 October, Charles presents "Formación para las autores del Web" at V Jornadas del SID@R in Mar del Plata, Argentina. http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/ Character Model Working Draft Published 30 September 2001: The W3C Internationalization Working Group has released a Working Draft of the "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0," recording changes made since the first Last Call. This document provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference for interoperable text manipulation. Read about W3C's work on internationalization. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-charmod-20010928/ http://www.w3.org/International/ Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 Last Call Working Draft Published 30 September 2001: The P3P Specification Working Group has released "The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P 1.0)" Last Call Working Draft with an amendment (an embedded DATASCHEMA is now child of POLICIES rather than of POLICY). Comments are welcome through 15 October. P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Read the answers to frequently asked questions about P3P and more on the W3C Privacy Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-P3P-20010928/ http://www.w3.org/Privacy/Activity RDF Model Theory Working Draft Published 25 September 2001: The RDF Core Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "RDF Model Theory." The document provides a precise semantic theory for RDF and RDFS, and sharpens the notions of consequence and inference in RDF. Learn more on the RDF home page, and read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-rdf-mt-20010925/ http://www.w3.org/RDF/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ XML Schema: Formal Description Working Draft Published 25 September 2001: The XML Schema Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of "XML Schema: Formal Description." Based on the syntax in "XML Schema Part 1: Structures," the formalization is a declarative system for describing and naming XML Schema information, specifying XML instance type information, and validating instances against schemas. Read about the W3C XML Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlschema-formal-20010925/ http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 513 Member organizations and 68 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. (If you subscribed through w3c-news, use mailto:w3c-news-request@w3.org to manage your subscription.) To send W3C a message, please refer to http://www.w3.org/Mail/. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________
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