Testimonials for W3C's CC/PP 1.0 Recommendation
These testimonials are in support of W3C's
CC/PP 1.0 Recommendation press release.
The specifications/guidelines
for profile descriptions of device capabilities and user preferences, as
detailed in the upcoming W3C CC/PP Structure and Vocabularies version 1.0
recommendation document, are a major step forward towards the standardization
of capabilities among devices. Such standardization is of direct benefit to
companies such as Boeing that strive to maintain commonality of devices used
within both the manufacturing and the knowledge worker areas for the
retrieval of Web resources.
-- Carl Jones, Director Collaboration Services -
Boeing Shared Services - Information Technology, The Boeing
Company.
HP supports the implementation
of systems that take into account the needs of their delivery context. This
is particularly important for mobile applications. CC/PP Structure and
Vocabulary 1.0 provides a consistent framework and representation for
expressing device capabilities and user preferences and therefore is a
significant step towards this goal. HP has actively contributed to the
evolution of this Recommendation through participation in working groups and
through DELI, an experimental open-source implementation of CC/PP. Our work
on CC/PP complements the leadership role HP is playing in developing tools
for the Semantic Web.
-- Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Vice-President and
Center Director, Solutions and Services Research Center, HP
Laboratories
MobileAware Ltd is pleased to
see the W3C DIWG bring CC/PP to the status of a W3C Recommendation. As a
participant in the DIWG, we are acutely aware of the significant advance this
represents. The ability to reliably convey contextual information from a
variety of devices under a variety of usage conditions is essential to the
development of mobile device-independent solutions. We will continue to
support our W3C colleagues in the development of these standards, and commend
the W3C for its leadership. MobileAware has long recognised the importance of
CC/PP and has incorporated into the most recent release of our Mobile
Interaction Server.
-- Brian Kinane, CTO MobileAware Ltd
CC/PP will take a very
significant role in the universal Web access with digital home appliances in
the era of ubiquitous networks. As one of the companies for digital home
appliances, Panasonic highly expects that CC/PP will become the foundation
for a wide variety of Web appliances.
-- Takatoshi Aoi, Director, Network Systems
Development Center, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
CC/PP is essential to the
realization of ubiquitous mobile Web access. Delivering on our commitment to
provide secure access to data -- anywhere, any time, on any device -- Sun
served as one of the editors of the CC/PP Structure and Vocabularies 1.0
specification and are delivering the Sun Java(tm) System Portal Server,
Mobile Access with CC/PP support. In addition, Sun has further demonstrated
its commitment to standards by leading a group of industry experts from 20
different companies through the Java Community Process to standardize a Java
API for CC/PP processing with JSR 188.
-- John Fanelli, senior director, Network
Identity, Communications and Portal Products for Sun Microsystems,
Inc.
As a strong supporter of
open standards and a founding member of the Device Independence Working
Group, Volantis is delighted to see the publication of the CC/PP Structure
and Vocabularies Recommendation. Volantis products support authoring and
operation of web sites that can be accessed from a tremendous variety of
types of device. The accurate provision of detailed information about device
capabilities and user preferences is key in providing this support. By
formalising the way in which such information is represented, CC/PP will play
an important role in future versions of Volantis products.
-- Mark Watson, Chief Technology Officer, Volantis
Systems Ltd.
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