W3C Weekly News - 4 December 2001

                             W3C Weekly News

                      27 November - 4 December 2001

W3C Internationalization Workshop Announced

   3 December 2001: Registration is open through 10 January for the W3C
   Internationalization Workshop to be held in Washington, DC, USA, on
   1 February 2002, colocated with the 20th International Unicode
   Conference. With the goal of strengthening the W3C
   Internationalization Activity, to define the exact shape of this
   effort, and to allow for a wide variety of input, we are organizing a
   one-day workshop open to 45 participants. Position papers should be
   submitted by 10 January.

    http://www.w3.org/2002/02/01-i18n-workshop/cfp
    http://www.w3.org/International/Activity

W3C Team Presentations in December

   30 November 2001: On 3 December, Tim Berners-Lee spoke at the
   Harvard Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard University,
   Cambridge, MA, USA. On 19 December, Wendy Chisholm will be the
   keynote speaker at the State of Washington Accessibility Symposium,
   USA. Several Team members present at XML 2001 USA in Orlando,
   Florida: on 11 December, Daniel Weitzner speaks on "Patents and Web
   Standards"; on 13 December, Chris Lilley gives a talk on "Not Just SVG
   - Integrated XML Graphics," Dean Jackson gives a talk titled "SVG
   Mobile - SVG on resource-limited devices," and Henry S. Thompson
   speaks on "Schema Language Comparison"; on 14 December, Henry
   Thompson presents "Normal Form Conventions for XML Representations of
   Structured Data," Philippe Le Hégaret presents an "Update from the
   W3C DOM Activity," and Hugo Haas presents an "Update on the Work of
   the W3C XML Protocol Activity."

    http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/iip/HIIP-Seminar.html
    http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/2001/

P3P Deployment Guide Updated

   30 November 2001: "The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0
   Deployment Guide" has been updated. This guide for Web site operators
   explains how to write a machine-readable privacy policy, and gives
   step-by-step instructions for deploying your privacy policy on
   popular Web servers. Read the answers to frequently asked questions
   about P3P and more about the W3C Privacy Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-p3pdeployment-20011130
    http://www.w3.org/P3P/p3pfaq
    http://www.w3.org/Privacy/Activity

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