"KEY SPECIFICATIONS OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB" DOCUMENTED IN SECOND ISSUE OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB JOURNAL

The HTML, HTTP, and URL specs (such as they are) are finally
in print...

See also:

http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Journal/

> KEY SPECIFICATIONS OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB DOCUMENTED IN SECOND ISSUE OF
> 		    THE WORLD WIDE WEB JOURNAL
> 
> SEBASTOPOL, CA--The second issue of the World Wide Web Journal provides
> Webmasters, application programmers, and technical managers with a
> single reference that contains the key specifications of the World Wide
> Web. A publication of the World Wide Web Consortium, whose members
> include software vendors, information publishers, and other
> organizations concerned with the development and use of Web technology,
> the World Wide Web Journal: Volume 1, Issue 2: Key Specifications of
> the World Wide Web describes the core design of the Web's open
> architecture.
> 
> >From the very beginning of the Web at CERN, the specifications that
> described how the Web works were drafted by Tim Berners-Lee and made
> available online.  Since then, these documents have been drafted as
> RFCs (Request For Comment) to conform with standardization process
> established by the group that oversees the development of Internet
> standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Today, the World
> Wide Web Consortium, which is also developing new specifications,
> maintains the repository of these documents online. With the
> publication of this issue of the World Wide Web Journal, the complete
> collection of these important documents is available in print for the
> first time.
> 
> The specifications cover the basic architecture of the WWW, as well as
> newly developing features. Its most basic specifications are:
>      > HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, defines how content is
> conveyed across the Web (HTTP 1.0 and 1.1).
>      > URLs, or Uniform Resource Locators, are the addressing mechanism
> for the Web (Internet RFCs 1630, 1736, 1738, and 1808).
>      > HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language, is the lingua franca of the
> Web (HTML 1.0 and 2.0, RFCs 1866 and 1867).
> 
> New specifications likely to impact the development of the Web are
> also included:
>      > PNG, a newly developed graphics format created specifically
> for the Web.
>      > PICS, or Platform for Internet Content Selection, creates the
> infrastructure for content rating and labeling services.
>      > PEP is an extension mechanism for HTTP intended to allow HTTP
> agents to interoperate with unknown protocol extensions and to
> negotiate protocol extensions.
>      > HTML tables has the ability to group table rows into sections,
> plus it can specify cell alignment compactly for sets of cells
> according to context.
> 
> The first issue of the World Wide Web Journal, released in January
> 1996, contains the proceedings of the Fourth International World Wide
> Web Conference, held in December 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts. It
> includes 57 refereed technical papers, as well as the two best papers
> from regional conferences.
> 
> WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM
> 
> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), led by Tim Berners-Lee, the
> original visionary for the Web, spearheads standards research and
> development for the Web. Over 100 member organizations participate in
> the painstaking work of keeping open access to Web information.
> 
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> 
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> 
> 			      # # #
> 
> World Wide Web Journal: Volume 1, Issue 2
> Key Specifications of the World Wide Web
> A publication of O'Reilly & Associates and the World Wide Web
>      Consortium (W3C)
> Spring 1996
> 356 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-190-9, $24.95

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