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- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 09:03:25 -0400
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W3C Weekly News 18 June - 1 July 2002 SOAP Version 1.2 Last Call Working Drafts Published 27 June 2002: The XML Protocol Working Group released four SOAP Version 1.2 Last Call Working Drafts: the "Primer," "Messaging Framework," "Adjuncts," and "Assertions and Test Collection." Comments are welcome through 19 July. Also published are "SOAP Version 1.2 Email Binding" and updates to "SOAP Version 1.2 Usage Scenarios" and "XML Protocol (XMLP) Requirements." Publicly developed, SOAP Version 1.2 is a data transfer protocol designed for information exchange on the Web, using XML as its encapsulation language. Read about the Web Services Activity. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-soap12-part0-20020626/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-soap12-part1-20020626/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-soap12-part2-20020626/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-soap12-testcollection-20020626 http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xmlp-scenarios-20020626/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xmlp-reqs-20020626 http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-soap12-email-20020626 http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ W3C Advisory Committee Elects New Advisory Board 27 June 2002: W3C Advisory Committee has filled six open seats on the W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board participants are Ann Bassetti (Boeing), Jim Bell (Hewlett-Packard), Carl Cargill (Sun Microsystems), Don Deutsch (Oracle), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Renato Iannella (IPR Systems), Ken Laskey (SAIC), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Lauren Wood (Unaffiliated). Steve Zilles is the interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board in the W3C Process Document. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process-20010719/organization.html#AB Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Advances to Candidate Recommendation 26 June 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of "Speech Recognition Grammar" to Candidate Recommendation. Speech grammars allow voice-based application authors to create rules describing what users are expected to say after listening to each application prompt. Read the press release and testimonials, and visit the Voice Browser home page. http://www.w3.org/2002/06/speech-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/Voice/ XML-Signature XPath Filter Last Call Published 20 June 2002: The joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0." Comments are welcome through 11 July. The draft defines a means to digitally sign a document subset using XPath, the language for addressing parts of an XML document. Visit the XML Signature home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xmldsig-filter2-20020620/ http://www.w3.org/Signature/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 487 Member organizations and 70 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________
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