CC/PP Information Page

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The CC/PP WG is now closed and the work on CC/PP will continue in the Device Independence WG.

This page is maintained only to provide the CC/PP related information.

What's new

CC/PP Validator is now available for test.
CC/PP: Structure and Vocabularies has become W3C Recommendation, 15 January 2004.
CC/PP Test Suite and CC/PP Implementation Report are also available.
New Article: Introduction to CC/PP, The Web Standards Project.

Resources

API

JSR 188 CC/PP Processing defines a set of Java API for processing CC/PP and UAProf documents.

Software

Sun Java System Portal Server, Sun
JSR 188 Reference Implementation, Sun
IBM UCP. IBM
SADiC Online CC/PP Validator.
Device Independence Access for the World Wide Web, W3C Greece office developed contents transcoding and selection techniques based on CC/PP. This is a part of IST-2000-28767 QUESTION-HOW Project
CC/PP Validator, The validation code available as part of DELI. Validating CC/PP and UAProf Profiles is the report describe the code.
Profium SIR - The Semantic Information Router, Profium
Covigo Presentation Server, Universal device presentation support using W3C Standard, support CC/PP and UAprof, Covigo
Nokia Activ Server, UAProf Context Interface
Brience Mobile Processing Server, Brience
Cysive Cymbio Interaction Server, Cysive
Wokup! Server and Studio, Wokup
Aligo M-1 Mobile Application Server, Aligo
The UPSProfiles Package - A Java package for the creation of valid CC/PP profiles
- NAC: Negotiation and Adaptation Core
CC/PP Toolkit, Intel can be downladed using the "Software Downloads" on that page - The toolkit contains, CC/PP Client Proxy, Client Profile Manager API, Server Profile Repository, Server Content Customization Module (mod_ccpp).
X-Smiles - is going to support X-Cries CC/PP Servlet.
DELI - Open Source Delivery Context Java Library supporting CC/PP and UAProf (with HTTP header negotiation)
PANDA, Skunk ... - An Open source CC/PP test bed, plug-in for MS's IE and integration CC/PP with P3P.

Profiles

CC/PP / RDF descriptions of the capabilities of mobile phones

A UAProf Schema: http://www.wapforum.org/profiles/UAPROF/ccppschema-20000405
List of UAProf profiles (according to WAP-248-UAProf-20011020-a): http://w3development.de/rdf/uaprof_repository/
Ericsson T68 profile: http://mobileinternet.ericsson.com/UAprof/T68R1.xml
Ericsson T39 profile: http://mobileinternet.ericsson.com/UAprof/T39.xml
Mitsubishi Trium profile: http://www.mitsubishi-telecom.com/profiles/eclipse.ua

Articles, Papers and Web pages

UAProf 2.0 Candidate Release
Mobile learning Technological challenges on multi-channel e-learning services, a Master's thesis discusses CC/PP and UAProf, Knut Ola
Context Management in Mobile Environments, slightly older, Ricky Robinson
Ontology for device description, FIPA
Universal Multimedia Access, that compare UAProf and CC/PP with other mechanisms for capability negotiation such as PSS, University Course notes by Andew Perkis
Ultimate Device Support with CC/PP: What the future holds
Using capability classes to classify and match CC/PP and UAProf profiles: How to implement capability classes and how they may be applied to various content specialisation techniques such as content transformation, negotiation or generation and also compares and contrasts capability classes with device classes and media queries.
Some questions and answers on CC/PP and UAProf: Introduces the interoperability and reliability of implementations of CC/PP and UAProf.
The m-pulse (HP e-zine on mobility): An excellent non-technical introduction to the work on CC/PP, UAProf and device independence
- Deli-style profile resolution: approaching device independence
- Serving up device independence the extensible way
Taking Charge of Profile Information Conveyance
Profiles for the Situated Web
Enhancements in the Mobile Internet
CC/PP for Content Negotiation and Contextualization
Applying CC/PP to User's Environmental Information for Web Service Customization
CC/PP Harmonization with P3P for Web Privacy
Profiling methods based on RDF(S)
an articile at ICDRI

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Deliverables & Working Documents

W3C Working Drafts

Mar. 2003: Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 3rd Last Call WD.
Nov. 2002: Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 2nd Last Call WD.
CC/PP Implementors Guide: Privacy and Protocol, Hidetaka Ohto, Lalitha Suryanarayana, Johan Hjelm. Dec 20, 2001,
This document gives implementors advice on how to protect the privacy of a CC/PP user, and describes how this can be applied using P3P in HTTP with the CC/PP Exchange protocol.
Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies, Graham Klyne, Franklin Raynolds, Chris Woodrow, Hidetaka Ohto. March 15, 2001,
This document was created by mergeing of CC/PP Structure and CC/PP Attribute Vocabularies.
Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Requirements and Architecture, Mikael Nilsson, Johan Hjelm, Hidetaka Ohto. July 21, 2000.
This document outlines the requirements for a CC/PP framework, vocabulary, and trust model, and provides an overview of an architecture that satisfies these requirements.
Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Terminology and Abbreviations, Mikael Nilsson. July 21, 2000,
This document shows terminology and abbreviations that are used in other CC/PP documents. For more detailed description of CC/PP, please see CC/PP: A user side framework for content negotiation.
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure, Franklin Reynolds, Chris Woodrow, Hidetaka Ohto. July 21, 2000,
CC/PP is a user-side hardware, software and preferences profile written in Resource Description Framework (RDF), W3C's language for modeling metadata. This document describes a method for using RDF to create a general, yet extensible framework for describing user preferences and device capabilities.
CC/PP Attribute Vocabularies, Graham Klyne. July 21, 2000,
This document describes CC/PP (Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles) vocabularies.

Input papers, proposals and notes

CC/PP Implementors Guide: Harmonization with Existing Vocabularies and Content Transformation Heuristics, Johan Hjelm, Lalitha Suryanarayana. Dec 20, 2001,
This document discusses the results of the coordination with the IETF CONNEG Working Group, as well as the WAP Forum UAPROF Working Group and several other groups, which have related activities.
Composite Capabilities/Preferences Profiles, Franklin Reynolds et al. November 30, 1998. Updated July 27, 1999
This document describes a method for using RDF to create a general, yet extensible framework for describing user preferences and device capabilitie.
CC/PP Exchange Protocol. Hidetaka Ohto, Johan Hjelm. June 24, 1999,
This document describe the CC/PP exchange protocol based on the HTTP Extension Framework.

History

This WG is closed March 2003. The Device Independence WG has commited to do what is required to move the CC/PP to W3C Recommendation.

Events

CC/PP Implementors' Day, Karlstad, Sweden, November 15-16, 2000

Publications (since 2000)

Mar. 2003: Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 3rd Last Call WD.
Nov. 2002: Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 2nd Last Call WD.
Dec. 2001: CC/PP Implementors Guide: Privacy and Protocol published.
Dec. 2001: CC/PP Implementors Guide: Harmonization with Existing Vocabularies and Content Transformation Heuristics published.
Mar. 2001: Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies updated.
Jan. 2001: Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies published.
Jul. 2000: Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Requirements and Architecture updated.
Jul. 2001: Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure published.
Jul. 2000: CC/PP Attribute Vocabularies published.
Jul. 2000: Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Terminology and Abbreviations published.
Feb. 2000: Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Requirements and Architecture published.

Mark H. Butler, past WG Chair
Johan Hjelm, past WG Chair
Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Device Independence Activity lead & Team contact

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