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- PGP (Pretty good privacy)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
An e-mail security system that uses public key cryptography and
has the philosophy that individuals can choose whom they trust for
what purpose- the "web of trust."
- PICS (Platform form
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
W3C's technology that allows parents to select content for
their children on the basis of an open set of criteria, as opposed
to government censorship. See filtering.
- PKC (public key cryptography)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A very neat bit of mathematics on which is based a security
system in which there is no need to exchange secret keys; instead,
people have one "private" key that only they know and one "public"
key that everyone knows.
- PKI (Public key infrastructure)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A hierarchy of "certification authorities" to allow individuals
and organizations to identify each other for the purpose
(principally) of doing business electronically.
- PNG (Portable network graphics)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A format for encoding a picture pixel by pixel and sending it
over the Net. A recommendation of the W3C, replacing GIF.
- protocol
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A language and a set of rules that allow computers to interact
in a well-defined way. Examples are FTP, HTTP, and NNTP.
- RDF (Resource description framework)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A framework for constructing logical languages that can work
together in the Semantic Web. A way of using XML for data rather
than just documents.
- RFC (Request for comments)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The humble title of the memos which defined and still define
the workings of the Interet. The
Internet
Engineering Task Force
later developed a growing process for
categorizing the status of RFCs, up to a level of "Internet
Standard".
- RPC (remote procedure call)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
When one part of a program calls on another part to do some
work, the action is called a procedure call. RPC is a set of tools
that allow you to write a program whose different parts are on
different computers, without having to worry about how the
communication happens. A generic technique, not a specific product.
- RSA
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A public key encryption system invented by Ron Rivest, Adi
Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. RSA algorithms have been patented (
expiring in
2000
), and so its inventors have licensed its deployment.
- schema (pl., schemata)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A document that describes an
XML
or
RDF
vocabulary. Any document which describes, in
formal way, a language or parameters of a langauge.
- semantic web
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The Web of data with meaning in the sense that a computer
program can learn enough about what the data means to process it.
- separation of form from content
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
The principle that one should represent separately the essence
of a document and the style with which it is presented. An element
in my decision to use SGML and an important element in the drive
for accessibility on the Web.
- server
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A program that provides a service (typically information) to
another program, called the client. A Web server holds Web pages
and allows client programs to read and write them.
- SGML (Standard generalized markup language)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
An international standard in markup languages, a basis for HTML
and a precursor to XML.
- SMIL (Synchronized multimedia integration language)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A language for creating a multimedia presentation by specifying
the spatial and temporal relationships between its components. A
W3C recommendation.
- style sheet
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A document that describes to a computer program (such as a
browser) how to translate the document markup into a particular
presentation (fonts, colors, spacing, etc.) on the screen or in
print. See also CSS, XSL, separation of form from content.
- SVG (Scalable vector graphics)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A language for describing drawings in terms of the shapes that
compose them, so that these can be rendered as well as possible.
- tangle
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A program I wrote for playing with the concept of information
as consisting only of the connections.
- TCP (Transmission control protocol)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23)
A computer protocol that allows one computer to send the other
a continuous stream of information by breaking it into packets and
reassembling it at the other end, resending any packets that get
lost in the Internet. TCP uses IP to send the packets, and the two
together are referred to as TCP/IP.
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