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- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:46:38 -0800
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W3C Weekly News
28 February - 7 March 2007
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W3C Launches New HTML Working Group
W3C is pleased to invite participation in the new HTML Working
Group, chartered to create the next HTML standard with the active
participation of browser vendors, software developers, and content
designers. "It's time to revisit the standard and see what we can do
to meet the current community needs, and to do so effectively with
commitments from browser manufacturers in a visible and open way,"
said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. At the same time, W3C is chartering
the Forms Working Group, the XHTML2 Working Group, and rechartering the
Hypertext Coordination Group. Read the press release and visit the HTML
Working Group home page, the Forms Working Group home page, and the
XHTML2 Working Group home page.
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/html-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
Web Services Policy 1.5: Call for Implementations
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Web Services Policy 1.5"
to Candidate Recommendation. The Policy Framework defines a model for
expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for
their interaction. Attachment defines how to associate policies, for
example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply.
Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome through 30 June. Read
about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-20070228/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-ws-policy-attach-20070228/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Tim Berners-Lee Speaks on Future of the Web to US Congress
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, testified on the future of the World
Wide Web before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the
Internet, Committee on Energy & Commerce, U.S. House of
Representatives, on 1 March. Chairman Edward Markey invited Berners-Lee
as the sole witness for the first in a series on the Digital Future of
the United States. The testimony and details of the hearing and
archived Webcast (WMP) are available.
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/03/01-ushouse-future-of-the-web.html
http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-ti_hrg.030107.WorldWideWeb.shtml
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications: Call
for Participation
Position papers are due 17 April for the W3C Workshop on Declarative
Models of Distributed Web Applications to be held 5-6 June in Dublin,
Ireland, hosted by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State
Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Attendees will discuss the
potential for declarative techniques as a basis for reducing the costs
of building Web applications for the home, office and mobile
environments to meet the demand for greater interactivity and access to
device capabilities. Read about W3C Workshops and about the Ubiquitous
Web.
http://www.w3.org/2007/02/dmdwa-ws/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/UbiWeb/
Web of Services for Enterprise Computing: Workshop
The Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise Computing was held in
Bedford, MA, USA, hosted by MITRE. Participants discussed how to
facilitate the processing of business transactions and interactions
with systems that pre-date the Web, and how to address the need to
interconnect intranet and/or extranet services using Web technologies.
Read about Workshops and W3C Activities.
http://www.w3.org/2006/10/wos-ec-cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
Last Call: GRDDL Links Microformats and Semantic Web
The GRDDL Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of
"GRDDL." Comments are welcome through 30 March. With important
applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL
is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML
content using programs such as XSLT transformations. GRDDL allows
powerful mash-ups at very low cost. Visit the Semantic Web home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-grddl-20070302/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
W3C Launches Security Specifications Working Group
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the XML Security
Specifications Maintenance Working Group. Frederick Hirsch (Nokia)
chairs the group which is chartered to perform maintenance work on
Recommendations from the XML Signature and XML Encryption families of
security specifications. The group is also tasked to suggest a charter
for possibly broader future work. Read the about the Security Activity.
W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group.
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40279/join
http://www.w3.org/2007/xmlsec/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/xmlsig-charter
http://www.w3.org/Security/
Secure Browsing: Working Draft
The Web Security Context Working Group released the First Public
Working Draft of "Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope
and Use Cases." The draft describes what technologies may be used and
how proposals will be evaluated to produce the group's technical work
to enable a secure and usable interface so Web users can make safe
trust decisions on the Web. Read about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsc-usecases-20070302/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
CURIE: Working Draft for Compact URIs
The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and
Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public
Working Draft of "CURIE Syntax 1.0." Written for markup language
designers, the draft specifies the syntax and usage of CURIEs which
are abbreviated or "compact URIs." Read about the HTML Activity and
the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-curie-20070307/
http://www.w3.org/Markup/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
CSS3 Text: Working Draft
The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft of "CSS Text Level
3." Formerly titled the CSS3 Text Effects Module, the draft is part of
the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3 and addresses white
space, line breaks, word boundaries, text wrapping, alignment,
justification and spacing. Visit the CSS home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-text-20070306/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Incubator Group to Analyze Semantic Web Services
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the SWS Testbed Incubator
Group sponsored by W3C Members Wright State University, Stanford
University, DERI University of Innsbruck, and the National University
of Galway, Ireland. The mission of this XG is to develop a standard
methodology for evaluating Semantic Web Services based upon a standard
set of problems and develop a public repository of such problems. Read
about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of
emerging Web-related technologies.
W3C Members may use this form to join the group.
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40300/join
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/swsc/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
Incubator Group to Focus on Uncertain Knowledge
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Uncertainty Reasoning
for the World Wide Web Incubator Group to better define the challenge
of working with incomplete knowledge. The group expects to identify the
elements of uncertainty, produce use cases, and create the fundamentals
of a way to represent and reason when truth or falsehood is
inapplicable or unknown. The group is sponsored by W3C Members Image,
Video and Multimedia Systems Lab, McDonald Bradley, MITRE, National ICT
Australia (NICTA), the University of Amsterdam and the University of
Bristol. Read about the Incubator Activity.
W3C Members may use this form to join the group.
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40302/join
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/urw3/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
W3C Talks in March
* Shawn Henry participates in a panel at SXSW Interactive on 10 March
in Austin, Texas, USA.
* Ivan Herman presents at Infotech for Pharma & Biotech Europe on
14 March in London, UK.
* Olle Olsson presents at Software Innovation Annual Conference on
18 March in Lisboa, Portugal.
* Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at the Technology & Persons with
Disabilities Conference on 21 March in Los Angeles, California, USA.
* Olle Olsson presents at GIT 2007 Forum för Geografisk IT on 22 March
in Jönköping, Sweden.
* Máté Pataki and Éva Megyaszai present at Magyarországi Web
Konferencia on 31 March in Budapest, Hungary.
Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/TalkFiles/Talks.rss
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