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The "what" and "how" of W3C

Beijing, China 2009-11-11

Klaus Birkenbihl, W3C klaus@w3.org

Content

I'm trying to give you an idea of:

The Web

After ~17 years in the wild the Web has changed and still develops in various directions:

Admitted: there might be different views on this

Requirements for the Web

Some general demands in order to make the Web useful and successful:

It started pretty simple

Fairly simple, but most of the topics mentioned before where not yet addressed - except: it scaled!

Broadening the Basis

Even broader ...

The universal Web

Technology

 Technology stack, see http://www.w3.org/Consortium/techstack-desc.html for more details

We cannot cover all. More on http://www.ict-media.de/webtech.html

Web applications

The web today

Cuurent web

Semantic Web

Cuurent web

How do we get there

Web Services

Mobile Web

Voice: the phone on the Web

Privacy and security

The Web live

W3C

W3C Structure

W3C Groups

Making Standards at W3C

Outline of the W3C patent policy

Some simple rules - great impact

Outline of the process

Summary

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