W3C Weekly News - 16 April 2002

                             W3C Weekly News

                         9 April - 16 April 2002

Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Becomes a W3C Recommendation

   16 April 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium today released "The
   Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P 1.0)" as a W3C
   Recommendation. The specification has been reviewed by the W3C
   Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. P3P allows people to
   define and publish their Web site privacy policies, and helps
   automate how those policies are read. P3P also gives users control
   over the use of their personal information on Web sites they visit,
   thus promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Read the press
   release and testimonials.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-P3P-20020416/
    http://www.w3.org/2002/04/p3p-pressrelease
    http://www.w3.org/2002/04/p3p-testimonial

APPEL Working Draft Published

   16 April 2002: The P3P Specification Working Group has released "A P3P
   Preference Exchange Language (APPEL) 1.0" as a Working Draft and
   companion to the P3P specification. The APPEL language describes
   collections of privacy policy preferences between P3P user agents.
   Read the answers to frequently asked questions about P3P and more on
   the W3C Privacy Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-P3P-preferences-20020415/
    http://www.w3.org/P3P/p3pfaq
    http://www.w3.org/Privacy/Activity

DOM Level 3 Working Drafts Published

   10 April 2002: The DOM Working Group has released two DOM Level 3
   Working Drafts, the Core Specification and the Abstract Schemas and
   Load and Save Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows
   programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents
   dynamically. Comments are invited. Read about the DOM Activity.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20020409/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-ASLS-20020409/
    http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity

W3C Team Presentations in April

   * 18 April: Daniel J. Weitzner participates in the US Department
     of Justice and Federal Trade Commission hearing "Competition
     and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based
     Economy" about patents and standards in Washington, DC, USA.
   * 18 - 20 April: Three W3C Team members attend Museums and the
     Web 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. On 18 April, Charles
     McCathieNevile presents "The Virtual On-Ramp." On 19 April,
     Eric Miller and Ralph Swick present a mini-workshop,
     "RDF - How can museums take advantage of it?" On 20 April,
     Eric Miller presents "Weaving Meaning: the W3C's Semantic
     Web Initiatives."
   * 19 April: Several Team members speak at the W3C Korean Office
     Opening in Daejeon, Korea. Steve Bratt presents an Overview
     of W3C. Marie-Claire Forgue presents "W3C Process for Issuing
     W3C Recommendations." Tatsuya Hagino speaks on the Semantic
     Web. Ivan Herman presents an "Overview of XML Related
     Recommendations." Kazuhiro Kitagawa presents "Device
     Independence activities of W3C."
   * 22 April: Steven Pemberton presents a tutorial "Styling
     the New Web" at the CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in
     Computing Systems in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
   * 30 April: Charles McCathieNevile presents "A Best Practice
     Guide to Web Site Standards - Streamlining Accessibility" at
     the Online Business - Law and Regulation conference in Sydney,
     Australia.

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

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