This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
For related introductory information, see: Architecture Principles.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Standards
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2004-12-15
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The World Wide Web uses relatively
simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and
utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space
of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures, and
media. In an effort to preserve these properties of the information
space as the technologies evolve, this architecture document
discusses the core design components of the Web. They are
identification of resources, representation of resource state, and
the protocols that support the interaction between agents and
resources in the space. We relate core design components,
constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties
they support.
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Group Notes
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2013-04-30
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This document is intended to inform future social and legal discussions of the Web by clarifying the ways in which the Web's technical facilities operate to store, publish and retrieve information, and by providing definitions for terminology as used within the Web's technical community. This document also describes the technical and operational impact that does or could result from legal constraints on publishing, linking and transformation on the Web.
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2012-02-09
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This document is a placeholder to indicate that a document which
had previously been a workding draft on the Recommendation Track is
no longer being developed on the Recommendation Track. Instead, a
TAG Finding has been published, based in part on the content of the
working draft. The Finding is not on the Recommendation Track.
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1999-03-19
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This document describes the experiences and results that came
out of the Web Characterization Group as part of the W3C HTTP-NG
Activity, and how that work is now continued in the Web
Characterization Activity.
The HTTP-NG Working Group created a series of scenarios for the
HTTP-NG protocol design group, which were implemented in the scope
of the HTTP-NG testbed, and used to optimize its design.
The WCA started in November 1998, and will bring that work model
to a wider audience.
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Drafts
Below are draft documents:
Last Call Drafts.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Last Call Drafts
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2012-10-25
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This document recommends best practices for the authors of media
type definitions, for the authors of structured syntax suffix
definitions (such as +xml), for the authors of specifications that
define syntax for fragment identifiers, and for authors that publish
documents that are intended to be used with fragment identifiers or
who refer to URIs using fragment identifiers.
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Obsolete Specifications
These specifications have either been superseded by others,
or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
purposes, but are not intended to be used.
Retired
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1999-05-24
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This document represents an effort on the part of the W3C Web
Characterization Activity to establish a shared understanding of
key Web concepts. The primary goal in preparing this document was
to develop a common interpretation for terminology related to Web
characterization research. However, it is hoped that the Web
community at large will also benefit from the enumeration and
definition of important Web concepts.
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