PLING - W3C Policy Languages Interest Group
3 October 2007: The Policy Languages Interest Group (PLING) was created. Chaired by Marco Casassa-Mont (HP Labs) and Renato Iannella (NICTA), the group is chartered to discuss interoperability, requirements and related needs for integrating and computing the results when different policy languages used together, for example, OASIS XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language), IETF Common Policy, and P3P (W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences). Participation is open to W3C Members and the public.
W3C Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven Enforcement
14 December 2006: A W3C Privacy Workshop
Report recommending next steps for keeping privacy promises when
exchanging sensitive information on the Web is now available. In October
2006, privacy and access control experts from America, Australia, Asia and
Europe met to study Web privacy issues and solutions. Please read the press release
about the results of the W3C
Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven
Enforcement, hosted by the Joint Research Center of the European
Commission. (News archive)
P3P Work suspended
13 November 2006: After a
successful Last Call, the P3P Working Group decided to publish the P3P 1.1 Specification as a Working Group
Note to give P3P 1.1 a provisionally final state.
The P3P Specification Working Group took this step as there was insufficient
support from current Browser implementers for the implementation of P3P 1.1.
The P3P 1.1 Working Group Note
contains all changes from the P3P 1.1 Last Call. The Group thinks that P3P
1.1 is now ready for implementation. It is not excluded that W3C will push
P3P 1.1 until Recommendation if there is sufficient support for
implementation.
On the other hand, P3P keeps being the basis of a number of research
directions in the area of privacy world wide. One might cite the PRIME Project as well as the Policy aware Web. Many other
approaches also follow the descriptive metadata approach started by P3P. Such
projects are invited to send email to <rigo@w3.org> to be listed here.
W3C - Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages
9 September 2003: This Event took place to give attendees of the 25th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners and all other interested parties the occasion to have a tutorial/introduction to P3P from inside of W3C, to get some update about new developments and challenges for privacy enhanced technologies in the sector of web services and mobile applications ….
W3C Workshop on the long term Future of P3P
19-20 June 2003: The workshop discussed future applications of P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages to get feedback on what additional specifications or coordination efforts might be necessary to support them. It discussed technology and policy considerations at the same time, e.g the use of TCG technology to enforce privacy obligations into corporations ….
W3C Workshop on the Future of P3P
12 - 13 November 2002: The workshop in Dulles/Virginia paved the road for the works undertaken in P3P 1.1. The reasons for most of the changes from P3P 1.0 can be discoverd in the Workshop-Report.