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W3C Responds to the Public on Patent Policy Draft2 October 2001: W3C has published a response to public comments received on the W3C Patent Policy Framework. Prepared by the Patent Policy Working Group, the draft proposes a patent policy for W3C Working Groups and Members. Thanks to requests from the Web community, the W3C Team has extended a public and Member review period through 11 October. Your comments are welcome. (News archive) XHTML 1.0 Second Edition Working Draft Published4 October 2001: The HTML Working Group has released XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) as a Working Draft for public review. XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML in XML, giving the rigor of XML to Web pages. The second edition is not a new version; it brings the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with the first edition errata. Read more on the HTML home page. (News archive) SOAP 1.2 Working Drafts Published2 October 2001: The XML Protocol Working Group has released the second Working Draft of SOAP Version 1.2 in two parts, Part 1: Messaging Framework and Part 2: Adjuncts. Publicly developed and based on SOAP/1.1 (Simple Object Access Protocol), SOAP is a data transfer protocol designed for information exchange on the Web, using XML as its encapsulation language. Visit the XML Protocol home page. (News archive) W3C Team Presentations in October1 October 2001: On 1 October, Henry Thompson gives a keynote at XML Days in Budapest, Hungary. On 4-5 October, Rigo Wenning participates in the JRC-Workshop on Privacy and Security in Brussels, Belgium. On 13 October, Ivan Herman presents Overview of W3C Technologies at Day of the Greek W3C Office in Thessaloniki, Greece. On 16 October, Charles McCathieNevile speaks on the Semantic Web and use cases for the British Computer Society's Specialist Group. On 26 October, Charles presents Formación para las autores del Web at V Jornadas del SID@R in Mar del Plata, Argentina. On 29 October, Nobuo Saito presents Standardization Activities by W3C and Tatsuya Hagino gives a talk on the Current Situation and Perspective of Semantic Web and XML at the INTAP Semantic Web Conference in Tokyo, Japan. (News archive) Character Model Working Draft Published30 September 2001: The W3C Internationalization Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0 recording changes made since the first Last Call. This document provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference for interoperable text manipulation. Read about W3C's work on internationalization. (News archive) Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 Last Call Working Draft Published30 September 2001: The P3P Specification
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Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P 1.0) Last Call Working
Draft with an amendment (an embedded RDF Model Theory Working Draft Published25 September 2001: The RDF Core Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of RDF Model Theory. The document provides a precise semantic theory for RDF and RDFS, and sharpens the notions of consequence and inference in RDF. Learn more on the RDF home page, and read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity. (News archive) Past News |
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