The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Contacts API. The Contacts API defines the high-level interfaces required to obtain read access to a user's unified address book. Comments are welcome through 14 July. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

The XML Schema Working Group published two Group Notes today: Unicode block names for use in XSD regular expressions and An XSD datatype for IEEE floating-point decimal. The former lists the names of character categories and character blocks defined by Unicode and used in the regular expression language defined by XSD 1.0 and XSD 1.1. The latter defines a datatype designed for compatibility with IEEE 754 floating-point decimal data, which can be supported by XSD 1.1 processors as an implementation-defined datatype. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

The W3C Advisory Committee has filled four open seats on the W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July 2011, the nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (IBM), Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Michael Champion (Microsoft), Eduardo Gutentag (Oracle), Robert Freund (Hitachi), Ora Lassila (Nokia), Charles McCathieNevile (Opera Software), and Takeshi Natsuno (Keio University). Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board.