W3C Weekly News - 9 July 2005

                            W3C Weekly News

                         3 July - 9 July 2005

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W3C Offices Expand to India

  W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Indian Office in
  Noida, India, hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced
  Computing (C-DAC). R.K. Verma is Office Manager, and Vijay Gugnani is
  Deputy Manager. The opening ceremony is planned for 10-11 November. W3C
  Offices assist with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's
  geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C
  Activities.

   http://www.w3cindia.in/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

Last Call: XLink 1.1

  The XML Core Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft
  of "XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1." Comments are welcome
  through 26 August. The XLink 1.1 language allows elements to be
  inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links
  between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can
  describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of
  today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links. Visit the XML
  home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Working Draft: State Chart XML (SCXML)

  The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working
  Draft of "State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control
  Abstraction 1.0." SCXML is an execution environment based on UML Harel
  State Tables and CCXML. SCXML is a candidate for the control language
  within VoiceXML 3.0, CCXML 2.0, and the authoring language under
  development by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. Visit the
  voice browser home page.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-scxml-20050705/
   http://www.w3.org/Voice/

Working Draft: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) 1.1

  The P3P Specification Working Group has released an updated Working
  Draft of the "Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1)." P3P
  simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy
  policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has
  new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C
  workshops and the privacy community. The draft also includes all errata
  for P3P 1.0. Read about privacy and P3P.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-P3P11-20050701/
   http://www.w3.org/P3P/

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