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2007-02-28: Tim
Berners-Lee, W3C Director, is to testify on the future of the World
Wide Web before the Subcommittee
on Telecommunications and the Internet, Committee on Energy &
Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, on 1 March at 10:30 a.m.
Eastern. Chairman Edward Markey invited Berners-Lee as the sole witness
for the first in a series on the Digital Future of the United
States. (Permalink)
2007-02-28: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group. Frederick Hirsch (Nokia) chairs the group which is chartered to perform maintenance work on Recommendations from the XML Signature and XML Encryption families of security specifications. The group is also tasked to suggest a charter for possibly broader future work. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read the about the Security Activity. (Permalink)
2007-02-28: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web Services Policy 1.5 to Candidate Recommendation. The Policy Framework defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction. Attachment defines how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. Candidate Recommendation feedback is welcome through 30 June. Read about Web services. (Permalink)
2007-02-28: The Workshop on Web of Services for Enterprise
Computing is being held in Bedford, MA, USA, hosted by MITRE.
Participants are discussing how to facilitate the processing of
business transactions and interactions with systems that pre-date the
Web, and how to address the need to interconnect intranet and/or
extranet services using Web technologies. Read about Workshops and W3C Activities. (Photo credit: Paul Downey. Permalink)
XMLHttpRequest Object for AJAX2007-02-27: The Web API Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object.
Comments are welcome through 2 April. The core component of AJAX, the
XMLHttpRequest object is an interface that allows scripts
to perform HTTP client functions, such as submitting form data or
loading data from a remote Web site. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)
2007-02-26: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 26 March. Organized by data categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and can be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home page. (Permalink)
2007-02-22: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of a new Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER) Working Group in the Semantic Web Activity. Phil Archer (ICRA) will chair the group which is chartered through 31 March 2008 to develop a way for structured metadata, called "Description Resources," to be authenticated, applied to groups of Web resources, and retrieved independently of the resources. The group's first teleconference is 9 March. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (Permalink)
2007-02-22: The XForms Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of XForms 1.1, a foundation for the next generation of forms for the Web. Comments are welcome through 5 April. XForms 1.1 adds to version 1.0: several new submission capabilities, action handlers, utility functions, user interface improvements, and helpful datatypes as well as a more powerful action processing facility, including conditional, iterated and background execution, the ability to manipulate data arbitrarily and access to event context information. Visit the XForms home page. (Permalink)
2007-02-21: The Voice Browser Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. SCXML is an execution environment based on UML Harel State Tables and CCXML. SCXML is a candidate for the control language within VoiceXML 3.0, CCXML 2.0, and the authoring language under development by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (Permalink)
INRIA, the French National Research Institute, plays an active role in technology transfer through solving scientific and technological challenges in IT. The W3C European host until 2002, INRIA actively contributes to seven W3C Working Groups. (Member testimonials)
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