W3C Weekly News - 20 September 2003

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                     16 September - 20 September 2003

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Tim Berners-Lee Royal Society Webcast

   Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, presents "The Future of the World Wide
   Web" at the Royal Society in London, UK on Monday, 22 September. The
   keynote will be Webcast live at 18:00 UTC (7pm British Summer Time).
   Please visit the Royal Society site for system requirements and to
   test your connection. Mr. Berners-Lee is a Fellow of the Royal
   Society (2001).

    http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/live/

W3C Letter Regarding Fee Proposal for ISO Codes

   W3C has written to ISO President Oliver Smoot to express deep
   concerns regarding a Commercial Policies Steering Group (CPSG)
   proposal to charge for the use of certain ISO codes, including those
   for languages (ISO 639) and countries (ISO 3166). The Unicode
   Technical Committee has issued a similar public position. ISO
   (International Organization for Standardization) is the largest
   standards developer with 97 national member bodies. W3C's letter is
   archived on the public mailing list of the W3C Internationalization
   Activity.

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2003JulSep/0213
    http://www.w3.org/International/

Timed Text: Use Cases and Requirements Updated

   The Timed Text Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of
   "Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Use Cases and Requirements." The
   group is developing an XML-based, portable format used to represent
   streamable text synchronized with timed media like audio or video.
   This content type can be interchanged among authoring systems. Visit
   the Timed Text home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-tt-af-1-0-req-20030915/
    http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/

W3C Talks in September (continued)

   * Masayasu Ishikawa participates in the Opera press conference
     sponsored by Transware at Mielparque Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo,
     Japan on 26 September.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS
   channel and in iCalendar format.

    http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/

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Received on Friday, 19 September 2003 22:16:11 UTC