W3C Public Newsletter, 2008-07-28

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Last Call: Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines

   The Web Security Context Working Group has published the Last Call
   Working Draft of "Web Security Context: User Interface Guidelines."
   This specification deals with the trust decisions that users must
   make online, and with ways to support them in making safe and
   informed decisions where possible. In order to achieve that goal,
   this specification includes recommendations on the presentation of
   identity information by Web user agents. It also includes
   recommendations on handling errors in security protocols. The error
   handling recommendations both minimize the trust decisions left to
   users, and represent known best practice in inducing users toward
   safe behavior where they have to make these decisions. Comments are
   welcome through 15 September. Learn more about the Security
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wsc-ui-20080724/
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

Two Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Drafts Published: Format 1.0;
Evaluation

   The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group published two Working
   Drafts today: "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0" and
   "Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation." The former specifies the
   Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format. EXI is a very compact
   representation for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Information
   Set that is intended to simultaneously optimize performance and the
   utilization of computational resources. The EXI format uses a hybrid
   approach drawn from the information and formal language theories,
   plus practical techniques verified by measurements, for entropy
   encoding XML information. Using a relatively simple algorithm, which
   is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a small set of
   data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of XML event
   streams. The latter document, a first public draft, is an evaluation
   of the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 with reference to
   the Properties identified by the (now closed) XML Binary
   Characterization (XBC) Working Group, relative to XML, gzipped XML
   and ASN.1 PER. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML)
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-20080728/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-evaluation-20080728/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0 First Draft Published

   The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group has published the First Public
   Working Draft of "SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0." The work
   described in this and related documents is aimed at a set of
   standards for the transport of SOAP messages over Java Message
   Service (JMS). The main purpose is to ensure interoperability
   between the implementations of different Web services vendors. It
   should also enable customers to implement their own Web services for
   part of their infrastructure, and to have this interoperate with
   vendor provided Web services. This document specifies bindings for
   both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, using the SOAP 1.2 Protocol Binding
   Framework. Learn more about the Web Services Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/soapjms/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-soapjms-20080723/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

W3C Questions and Answers Blog 
     * Pleasure of Reading Tech Blog Posts by Karl Dubost
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/07/reading-tech-blogs.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
     * Interview: Roberto Scano on IWA/HWG and Promoting Web Standards
       by Ian Jacobs
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/07/interview_roberto_scano_on_iwa.html
     * Past Q&A Blog ...
       http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS.
       Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with
       CSS.
     * 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
       Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
     * 22 August, Ghent, Belgium: Detailed introduction into RDF and
       the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 4th Search &
       Find Workshop.
     * 1 September, Liverpool, United Kingdom: Web Accessibility and
       the Older Population. Andrew Arch presents at HCI and the Older
       Population 2008.
     * 23 September, York, United Kingdom: How web accessibility
       guidelines apply to design for the ageing population. Andrew
       Arch, Shadi Abou-Zahra present at Accessible Design in the
       Digital World.
     * 24 September, Vienna, Austria: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
       Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2nd European Semantic Technology
       Conference.
     * 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
       Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
       Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
       Models for Virtual Goods.
     * View upcoming talks by country
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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     * More talks...
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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