Public Policy and Metadata on the Web
by Daniel J. Weitzner

Table of contents

• The Web Public Policy Challenge
• The Web Public Policy Challenge: Introduction & Overview
• Role of Metadata in Building Social/Legal Context on the Web
• The Sematic Web
• IDENTITY
• Privacy Online vs. Offline
• P3P Functionial Overview
• Protocol Outline
• P3P Business Case
• Lessons from P3P
• IDENTITY: Authentication/Signed-XML
• Signed-XML Working Group
• IDENTITY next steps: Trust Engines
• MONEY: Micropayments
• PROPERTY: Intellectual Property Rights management
• Conclusion: Metadata for addressing web policy issues