- From: Paul Cotton <pcotton@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:24:30 -0700
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
Please find attached the announcement of the Last Call of the WebArch document. /paulc Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada 17 Eleanor Drive, Nepean, Ontario K2E 6A3 Tel: (613) 225-5445 Fax: (425) 936-7329 mailto:pcotton@microsoft.com -----Original Message----- Dear Chairs, On behalf of the Technical Architecture Group (TAG) [1], I am pleased to announce the publication of the 16 August 2004 "Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition" Last Call Working Draft. The document is available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-webarch-20040816/ Review end date: 17 September 2004 Mailing list : public-webarch-comments@w3.org (archive [2]) Please find below the following information: * Comments the TAG has addressed after a first last call * Which groups should review this document * Decision to advance to Last Call * Issues the TAG has addressed in the First Edition * Patent disclosures * The abstract and status section For more information on the purpose of a Last Call review, please consult section 7.4.2 of the W3C Process Document [3]. The TAG looks forward to your review comments, For Tim Berners-Lee, TAG co-Chair, and Stuart Williams, TAG co-Chair [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webarch-comments/ [3] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#last-call ====================================================== Comments the TAG has addressed after a first last call ====================================================== The TAG registered more than 200 comments raised about the Last Call Working Draft published in December 2003. The TAG has resolved most of those comments (see comments list [4]), many to the satisfaction of the original reviewer. The TAG also believes that a subset of these comments has been subsumed by larger changes to the document. For all other comments, the TAG invites reviewers to confirm whether this Last Call Working Draft satisfies (or not) their original concerns. A complete list of changes [5] since the 9 Dec 2003 Last Call Draft is available. [4] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2003/lc1209/issues.html [5] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/webarch/changes ======================================== Which groups should review this document ======================================== The intended audience for the document includes: 1. Participants in W3C Activities; i.e., developers of Web technologies and specifications in W3C, 2. Other groups and individuals developing technologies to be integrated into the Web, 3. Implementers of W3C specifications, 4. Web content authors and publishers. The TAG welcomes review from all interested parties. In particular, we request review from the following W3C groups: HTML WG [Steven Pemberton, Chair] Internationalization WG/IG [Addison Phillips, Chair] SW Best Practices and [Guus Schreiber and David Wood Deployment WG co-Chairs] SVG WG [Chris Lilley, Chair] XML Core WG [Paul Grosso, Norm Walsh co-Chairs] XML Schema WG [David Ezell, Chair] Web Services Description WG [Jonathan Marsh, Chair] Voice Browser WG [Jim Larson, Scott McGlashan co-Chairs] QA WG [Karl Dubost, Chair] The Chairs of some of these groups have already confirmed with the TAG their intent to review the document. For other groups, the W3C Director will appreciate a response (sent to public-webarch-comments@w3.org) with or without review comments. ================================= Decision to advance to Last Call ================================= The TAG decided unanimously to advance to Last Call at their 9-11 Aug 2004 F2F meeting: "RESOLVED: to go to last call with webarch v1.45 plus changes agreed by NDW, CL, and PC" http://www.w3.org/2004/08/11-tagmem-irc#T17-23-31 combined with confirmation from Norm Walsh, Chris Lilley, and Paul Cotton on Mon 16 Aug 2004: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2004Aug/0030.html If the Last Call review is positive, the TAG expects to request to advance directly to Proposed Recommendation. ================================================= Issues the TAG has addressed in the First Edition ================================================= The TAG charter [6] describes a process for issue resolution by the TAG. In accordance with those provisions, the TAG maintains a running issues list [7]. The First Edition of "Architecture of the World Wide Web" does not address every issue that the TAG has accepted since it began work in January 2002. The TAG has selected a subset of issues that the First Edition does address to the satisfaction of the TAG; those issues are identified in the TAG's issues list. The TAG intends to address the remaining (and future) issues after publication of the First Edition as a Recommendation. [6] http://www.w3.org/2001/07/19-tag [7] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html ================== Patent disclosures ================== There are currently no patent disclosures regarding "Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition" Patent disclosures regarding this document are listed here: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/disclosures ================================= Abstract of Architecture Document ================================= The World Wide Web is an information space of interrelated resources. This information space is the basis of, and is shared by, a number of information systems. Within each of these systems, people and software retrieve, create, display, analyze, relate, and reason about resources. Web architecture defines the information space in terms of identification of resources, representation of resource state, and the protocols that support the interaction between agents and resources in the space. Web architecture is influenced by social requirements and software engineering principles. These lead to design choices and constraints on the behavior of systems that use the Web in order to achieve desired properties of the shared information space: efficiency, scalability, and the potential for indefinite growth across languages, cultures, and media. Good practice by agents in the system is also important to the success of the system. This document reflects the three bases of Web architecture: identification, interaction, and representation. ========================== Status section [Minus some boilerplate] ========================== This is the 16 August 2004 Last Call Working Draft of "Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition." The Last Call review period ends 17 September 2004, at 23:59 EDT. Please send Last Call review comments on this document before that date to the public W3C TAG mailing list public-webarch-comments@w3.org (archive). Last Call Working Draft status is described in section 7.4.2 of the W3C Process Document. To the extent possible, please provide a separate email message for each distinct comment. The TAG has used the last call comments page to track the status and discussion of comments on the 9 December 2003 Draft. This draft has been informed by a large number of comments made on the on the 9 December 2003 Last Call Working Draft. Because the text has changed substantially, it is not always clear whether or not comments made on the previous draft still apply. The TAG expects a future revision of this document to become a W3C Recommendation. This document has been developed by W3C's Technical Architecture Group (TAG) (charter). A complete list of changes to this document since the first public Working Draft is available on the Web. The TAG charter describes a process for issue resolution by the TAG. In accordance with those provisions, the TAG maintains a running issues list. The First Edition of "Architecture of the World Wide Web" does not address every issue that the TAG has accepted since it began work in January 2002. The TAG has selected a subset of issues that the First Edition does address to the satisfaction of the TAG; those issues are identified in the TAG's issues list. The TAG intends to address the remaining (and future) issues after publication of the First Edition as a Recommendation. This document uses the concepts and terms regarding URIs as defined in draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-06, preferring them to those defined in RFC 2396. The IETF Internet Draft draft-fieldi ng-uri-rfc2396bis-06 is expected to obsolete RFC 2396, which is the current URI standard. The TAG is tracking the evolution of draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-06. Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada 17 Eleanor Drive, Nepean, Ontario K2E 6A3 Tel: (613) 225-5445 Fax: (425) 936-7329 mailto:pcotton@microsoft.com
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