CC/PP reading materials

Editor: Johan Hjelm, Ericsson, Visiting Engineer to the W3C

Johan Hjelm, September 19, 1999

This is a by no means comprehensive list of related materials. Feel free to browse.

Reading materials

W3C Mobile Access IG

• IG page: Mobile Access Interest Group,  activity statement
• Mailing list archive
• Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): A user side framework for content negotiation
• CC/PP exchange protocol based on HTTP Extension Framework
  

W3C P3P project

• WG page: P3P project member page,  P3P project CG page,  activity statement
• Mailing list archive(w3c-p3p-coordination)
• Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P1.0) Specification W3C Working Draft 7-March-1999
• A P3P Preference Exchange Language (APPEL) Working Draft

Other related Activities in W3C

• HTML WG
  • Modularizing XHTML1.0 W3C Working Draft (Section 5. Specifying XHTML Profiles)
• CSS &FP WG
  • Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification W3C Recommendation 12-May-1998 (Section 7 Media Types)
• Television and the Web Interest Group
  • Television and the Web Interest Group Charter (Device Profiles)
• Synchronized Multimedia
  • Synchronized Multimedia Modules based upon SMIL 1.0 (Section 3 Module Integration)
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

IETF Content Negotiation WG

• WG page: internal group page, charter page at IETF
• Mailing list archive
• " Media Feature Registration Procedure" Best Current Practice
• "Media Features for Display, Print and Fax" Proposed Standard
• "A syntax for describing media feature sets" Proposed Standard
• "Indicating media features for MIME content" draft -seems to play similar role as CC/PP exchange protocol Note
• "Identifying composite media features" draft -alternative to CC/PP approach of using a URI to identify a profile
• "W3C Composite Capability/Preference Profiles" draft - confusing title, explains how conneg work could be extended to take CC/PP requirements into account

IETF http WG - content negotiation related documents

• WG page: internal group page, charter page at IETF
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1  Draft Standard
• HTTP Extension Framework  draft - authored by Henrik, et al
• Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP(RFC 2295) Experimental - HTTP extension for transparent content negotiation
• HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0(RFC 2296)  Experimental - algorithm for transparent content negotiation
• HTTP State Management Mechanism draft - obsoletes: RFC 2109
• HTTP Trust Mechanism for State Management draft
• The Alternates Header Field draft - HTTP extension for content selection (simplification of RFC2295/2296)

Other related WGs/BOFs in IETF

• DAV Searching and Locating (dasl)
• RESCAP - Resource Capabilities Discovery BOF
• Internet Printing Protocol (ipp)
  • Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Encoding and Transport draft - Capability description format is their own format(binary format), The protocol is HTTP/1.1(must use POST, and capabilities are conveyed within entity body).
• Internet Fax (fax)
  • Content feature schema for Internet fax  draft - Capability description format is based on the Conneg syntax. There is no definition for the transport method. However it is supposed to be based on SMTP, and capabilities will be conveyed within MIME header.

WAP Forum UAPROF WG

• CC/PP framework is introduced in UAPROF WG (will be finalized in July 14). They are making vocabularies, CCPP over WSP(over the air protocol) based on CC/PP framework.
• WAP Forum Page  
• Mailing list archive   (WAP Forum member only)

Other related projects

• Service Contracts: Coordination of User-Adaptation in Open Service Architecture - inspiration (?) for Johan's work on CC/PP
• Project presentation: Project CAMELEON - defines profile framework using XML
• Georgia Tech: Future Computing Environments - several context-negotiation projects
• Context information services at the University of Kent

Conferences

• International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing - HUC 99, Karlsruhe, Germany

Hidetaka Ohto,  Johan Hjelm