WWW2002 Keynote - Specs count
by Tim Berners-Lee

Table of contents

• Welcome to WWW 2002
• Bits mean something
• You have an ethernet cable
• You send an Internet packet
• The TCP spec
• IANA Port Number Registry
• The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) specification
• The MIME type
• The XML and Namespaces specifications
• The namespace URI
• The XHTML specification
• The hooks - identifiers
• Example: From address
• Example: P3P Policy
• Example: RDF Property
• When the chain does NOT connect
• In the future
• Standard specifications are important
• Freely implementable specs are important
• Royalties - Historically
• Royalties: con
• Royalties: pro
• Patents now
• W3C status
• Discussing this is..
• Thank you