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Recommendations

A Recommendation is work that represents consensus within W3C and has the Director's stamp of approval. W3C considers that the ideas or technology specified by a Recommendation are appropriate for widespread deployment and promote W3C's mission.

The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification
16 April 2002, Massimo Marchiori
XML-Signature Syntax and Processing
12 February 2002, Donald Eastlake, Joseph Reagle, David Solo
WebCGM 1.0 Second Release
17 December 2001, David Cruikshank, John Gebhardt, Lofton Henderson, Roy Platon, Dieter Weidenbrueck
This specification is a revision of the WebCGM Profile Recommendation published on 21 January 1999.
XML Information Set
24 October 2001, John Cowan, Richard Tobin
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.0
15 October 2001, Sharon Adler, Anders Berglund, Jeff Caruso, Stephen Deach, Tony Graham, Paul Grosso, Eduardo Gutentag, Alex Milowski, Scott Parnell, Jeremy Richman, Steve Zilles
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification
5 September 2001, Jon Ferraiolo
SMIL Animation
5 September 2001, Patrick Schmitz, Aaron Cohen
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) Specification
09 August 2001, Jeff Ayars (RealNetworks), Dick Bulterman (Oratrix), Aaron Cohen (Intel), Ken Day (Macromedia), Erik Hodge (RealNetworks), Philipp Hoschka (W3C), Eric Hyche (RealNetworks), Muriel Jourdan (INRIA), Kenichi Kubota (Panasonic), Rob Lanphier (RealNetworks), Nabil Layaïda (INRIA), Thierry Michel (W3C), Debbie Newman (Microsoft), Jacco van Ossenbruggen (CWI), Lloyd Rutledge (CWI), Bridie Saccocio (RealNetworks), Patrick Schmitz (Microsoft), Warner ten Kate (Philips)
XML Base
27 June 2001, Jonathan Marsh
XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0
27 June 2001, Steve DeRose, Eve Maler, David Orchard
XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML
31 May 2001, Murray Altheim, Shane McCarron
Ruby Annotation
31 May 2001, Marcin Sawicki, Michel Suignard, Masayasu Ishikawa, Martin Dürst, Tex Texin
XML Schema Part 0: Primer
02 May 2001, David C. Fallside
XML Schema Part 1: Structures
02 May 2001, Henry S. Thompson, David Beech, Murray Maloney, Noah Mendelsohn
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes
02 May 2001, Paul V. Biron, Ashok Malhotra
Modularization of XHTML™
10 April 2001, Murray Altheim, Frank Boumphrey, Sam Dooley, Shane McCarron, Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer, Ted Wugofski
Canonical XML Version 1.0
19 March 2001, John Boyer
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0
21 February 2001, David Carlisle, Patrick Ion, Robert Miner, Nico Poppelier
XHTML™ Basic
19 December 2000, Mark Baker, Masayasu Ishikawa, Shinichi Matsui, Peter Stark, Ted Wugofski, Toshihiko Yamakami
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specifications
13 November 2000
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)
6 October 2000, Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler
This specification is a revision of the XML 1.0 Recommendation published on 10 February 1998.
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
3 February 2000, Jutta Treviranus, Charles McCathieNevile, Ian Jacobs, Jan Richards
XHTML™ 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language - A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0
26 January 2000, Steven Pemberton et al.
HTML 4.01 Specification
24 December 1999, Dave Raggett, Arnaud Le Hors, Ian Jacobs
This specification is the latest version of HTML 4. It supersedes the HTML 4.0 Recommendation first published as HTML 4.0 on 18 December 1997 and revised as HTML 4.0 on 24 April 1998.
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0
16 November 1999, James Clark
XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0
16 November 1999, James Clark, Steve DeRose
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML™) 1.01 Specification
7 July 1999. Patrick Ion, Robert Miner, Stephen Buswell, Nico Poppelier
This specification is a revision of the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 1.0 Specification published on 7 April 1998.
Associating Style Sheets with XML documents
29 June 1999, James Clark
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
5 May 1999, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden, Ian Jacobs
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification
22 February 1999, Ora Lassila, Ralph R. Swick
Namespaces in XML
14 January 1999, Tim Bray, Dave Hollander, Andrew Layman
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1) Level 1 Specification
11 January 1999, Håkon W. Lie, Bert Bos
This specification is a revision of the Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 Recommandation published on 17 December 1996.
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1
1 October 1998, Vidur Apparao, Steve Byrne, Mike Champion, Scott Isaacs, Ian Jacobs, Arnaud Le Hors, Gavin Nicol, Jonathan Robie, Robert Sutor, Chris Wilson, Lauren Wood
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0 Specification
15 June 1998, Philipp Hoschka
PICS Signed Labels (DSig) 1.0 Specification
27 May 1998, Yang-Hua Chu, Philip DesAutels, Brian LaMacchia, Peter Lipp
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 (CSS2) Specification
12 May 1998, Bert Bos, Håkon Wium Lie, Chris Lilley, Ian Jacobs
PICSRules 1.1 Specification
29 December 1997, Christopher Evans, Clive D.W. Feather, Alex Hopmann, Martin Presler-Marshall, Paul Resnick
HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
14 January 1997, Dave Raggett
PICS 1.1 Rating Services and Rating Systems -- and Their Machine Readable Descriptions
31 October 1996, Jim Miller, Paul Resnick, David Singer
PICS 1.1 Label Distribution -- Label Syntax and Communication Protocols
31 October 1996, Tim Krauskopf, Jim Miller, Paul Resnick, Win Treese
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification
1 October 1996, various authors

Proposed Recommendations

A Proposed Recommendation is work that (1) represents consensus within the group that produced it and (2) has been proposed by the Director to the Advisory Committee for review.

Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0
24 May 2002, John Boyer, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd, Joseph Reagle
Proposed Recommendation Phase Ends 21 June 2002

Candidate Recommendations

A Candidate Recommendation is work that has received significant review from its immediate technical community. It is an explicit call to those outside of the related Working Groups or the W3C itself for implementation and technical feedback.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1
30 April 2002, Dean Jackson
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 23 June 2002
Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic
30 April 2002, Tolga Capin
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 23 June 2002
XML Encryption Syntax and Processing
04 March 2002, Donald Eastlake, Joseph Reagle
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 25 April 2002
Decryption Transform for XML Signature
04 March 2002, Takeshi Imamura, Hiroshi Maruyama
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 25 April 2002
XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0
21 February 2002, Jonathan Marsh, David Orchard
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 30 April 2002
Selectors
13 November 2001, Daniel Glazman, Tantek Çelik, Ian Hickson, Peter Linss, John Williams
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 31 May 2002
CSS Mobile Profile 1.0
24 October 2001, Ted Wugofski, Doug Dominiak, Peter Stark
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 30 April 2002
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
13 September 2001, Ian Jacobs, Jon Gunderson, Eric Hansen
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 31 December 2001
XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0
11 September 2001, Ron Daniel Jr., Steve DeRose, Eve Maler
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 04 March 2002
XML Fragment Interchange
12 February 2001, Paul Grosso, Daniel Veillard
Candidate Recommendation Phase Ends 30 April 2001.

Working Drafts

The following Working Drafts have been submitted for review by W3C Members and other interested parties. These are draft documents and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C working drafts as reference material or to cite them as other than "work in progress".

Working Drafts in Last Call

A document in last call is to be reviewed by Working Groups that rely on or have a vested interest in the technology. The duration of the last call review period is listed in the status section of the document in review.

CSS TV Profile 1.0
16 May 2002, Sean Hayes, Glenn Adams, Tantek Çelik, Håkon Wium Lie
Last Call Ends 14 June 2002
Character Model for the World Wide Web
30 April 2002, Martin J. Dürst, François Yergeau, Richard Ishida, Misha Wolf, Asmus Freytag, Tex Texin
Last Call Ends 31 May 2002
XML 1.1
25 April 2002, John Cowan
Last Call Ends 28 June 2002
Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0
24 April 2002, Scott McGlashan, Dan Burnett, Peter Danielsen, Jim Ferrans, Andrew Hunt, Gerald Karam, Dave Ladd, Bruce Lucas, Brad Porter, Ken Rehor, Steph Tryphonas
Last Call Ends 24 May 2002
CSS3 module: Color
18 April 2002, Tantek Çelik, Chris Lilley
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification
28 March 2002, Ray Whitmer
Last Call Ends 01 May 2002
XML Key Management (2.0) Requirements
18 March 2002, Frederick Hirsch, Mike Just, Entrust
Last Call Ends 15 April 2002
Media queries
23 January 2001, Håkon Wium Lie, Daniel Glazman, Tantek Çelik
Last Call Ends 20 February 2002
XForms 1.0
18 January 2002, Micah Dubinko, Josef Dietl, Leigh L. Klotz, Roland Merrick, T. V. Raman
Last Call Ends 22 February 2002
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification
10 December 2001, Johnny Stenback, Arnaud Le Hors, Philippe Le Hégaret, Chris Wilson
Last Call Ends 07 January 2002
XML Events
26 October 2001, Shane McCarron, Steven Pemberton, T. V. Raman
Last Call Ends 30 November 2001
Speech Recognition Grammar Specification for the W3C Speech Interface Framework
22 August 2001, Andrew Hunt, Scott McGlashan
Last Call Ends 28 September 2001
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies
15 March 2001, Graham Klyne, Franklin Reynolds, Chris Woodrow, Hidetaka Ohto
Last Call Ends 05 April 2001

Working Drafts in development

CSS3 module: line
16 May 2002, Original CSS2 authors, and Bert Bos, Michel Suignard, Steve Zilles.
CSS3 module: text
16 May 2002, Bert Bos, Tantek Çelik, Chris Lilley, Martin Sawicki, Michel Suignard, Chris Wilson, Steve Zilles
Syntax of CSS rules in HTML's "style" attribute
16 May 2002, Tantek Çelik, Bert Bos, Marc Attinasi
QA Framework: Introduction
15 May 2002, Lofton Henderson, Kirill Gavrylyuk, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Lynne Rosenthal
QA Framework: Process & Operational Guidelines
15 May 2002, Kirill Gavrylyuk, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Lofton Henderson, Lynne Rosenthal
QA Framework: Specification Guidelines
15 May 2002, Kirill Gavrylyuk, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Lofton Henderson, Lynne Rosenthal
QA Framework: Operational Examples & Techniques
15 May 2002, Kirill Gavrylyuk, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Lofton Henderson, Lynne Rosenthal
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0
30 April 2002, Michael Kay
XML Query Use Cases
30 April 2002, Don Chamberlin, Daniela Florescu, Peter Fankhauser, Massimo Marchiori, Jonathan Robie
XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0
30 April 2002, Anders Berglund, Scott Boag, Don Chamberlin, Mary F. Fernández, Michael Kay, Jonathan Robie, Jérôme Siméon
XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
30 April 2002, Don Chamberlin, James Clark, Mary F. Fernández, Daniela Florescu, Jonathan Robie, Jérôme Siméon, Mugur Stefanescu
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model
30 April 2002, Mary Fernández, Jonathan Marsh, Marton Nagy
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators Version 1.0
30 April 2002, Ashok Malhotra, Norman Walsh, Jim Melton, Jonathan Robie
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schemas
30 April 2002, Dan Brickley, R.V. Guha
An XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile
30 April 2002, Ishikawa Masayasu
RDF Model Theory
29 April 2002, Patrick Hayes
RDF Test Cases
29 April 2002, Jan Grant, Dave Beckett
Web Services Architecture Requirements
29 April 2002, Daniel Austin, Abbie Barbir, Sharad Garg
Web Service Description Requirements
29 April 2002, Jeffrey C. Schlimmer
RDF Primer
26 April 2002, Frank Manola, Eric Miller
Requirements for WCAG 2.0
26 April 2002, Gregg Vanderheiden, Wendy Chisholm
XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0
25 April 2002, John Boyer, Merlin Hughes, Joseph Reagle
SVG 1.1/1.2/2.0 Requirements
22 April 2002, Dean Jackson
A P3P Preference Exchange Language (APPEL1.0)
15 April 2002, Marc Langheinrich
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification Version 1.0
9 April 2002, Arnaud Le Hors, Philippe Le Hégaret, Gavin Nicol, Lauren Wood, Mike Champion, Steve Byrne
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save Specification Version 1.0
9 April 2002, Ben Chang, Jeroen van Rotterdam, Johnny Stenback, Andy Heninger, Joe Kesselman, Rezaur Rahman
Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification for the Speech Interface Framework
05 April 2002, Daniel C. Burnett, Mark R. Walker, Andrew Hunt
Namespaces in XML 1.1
03 April 2002, Tim Bray, Dave Hollander, Andrew Layman, Richard Tobin
Namespaces in XML 1.1 Requirements
03 April 2002, Jonathan Marsh
XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics
26 March 2002, Denise Draper, Peter Fankhauser, Mary Fernández, Ashok Malhotra, Kristoffer Rose, Michael Rys, Jérôme Siméon, Philip Wadler
RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)
25 March 2002, Dave Beckett
XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0)
18 March 2002, Phillip Hallam-Baker
XML Key Management Specification Bulk Operation (X-BULK)
18 March 2002, Merlin Hughes
Requirements for a Web Ontology Language
07 March 2002, Jeff Heflin, Raphael Volz, Jonathan Dale
Patent Policy Working Group Royalty-Free Patent Policy
26 February 2001, Daniel J. Weitzner
Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0
21 February 2002, RJ Auburn
CSS3 module: Lists
20 February 2002, Tantek Çelik, Ian Hickson
CSS3 module: Backgrounds
19 February 2002, Tim Boland, Bert Bos
CSS3 module: Cascading and inheritance
19 February 2002, Håkon Wium Lie
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification Version 1.0
08 February 2002, Tom Pixley
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines "Wombat"
21 December 2001, Jutta Treviranus, Charles McCathieNevile, Jan Richards
CC/PP Implementors Guide: Privacy and Protocols
20 December 2001, Hidetaka Ohto, Lalitha Suryanarayana, Johan Hjelm
Modularization of XHTML™ in XML Schema
19 December 2001, Daniel Austin, Shane McCarron
SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer
17 December 2001, Nilo Mitra
SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework
17 December 2001, Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
SOAP Version 1.2 Part 2: Adjuncts
17 December 2001, Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
XML Protocol Usage Scenarios
17 December 2001, John Ibbotson
Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition
16 November 2001, Luc Van Tichelen
XHTML™ 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
4 October 2001, Murray Altheim, Shane McCarron
XML Schema: Formal Description
25 September 2001, Allen Brown, Matthew Fuchs, Jonathan Robie, Philip Wadler
XML Blueberry Requirements
21 September 2001, John Cowan
Device Independence Principles
19 September 2001, Roger Gimson
Techniques for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
13 September 2001, Ian Jacobs, Jon Gunderson, Eric Hansen
XML Accessibility Guidelines
29 August 2001, Daniel Dardailler, Sean B. Palmer
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
24 August 2001, Jason White, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden
SVG Mobile Requirements
04 August 2001, Rick Graham, Tolga Capin
CSS3 modules: Fonts
31 July 2001, Michel Suignard, Chris Lilley
CSS3 module: the box model
26 July 2001, Bert Bos
CSS3 module: Values and Units
13 July 2001, Håkon Wium Lie, Chris Lilley
XML Protocol Abstract Model
09 July 2001, Stuart Williams, Mark Jones
XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)
11 June 2001, Ashok Malhotra, Jonathan Robie, Michael Rys
CSS3 introduction
23 May 2001, Eric A. Meyer, Bert Bos
Document Object Model (DOM) Requirements
19 April 2001, Ben Chang, Mike Champion, James Davidson, Angel Diaz, Andy Heninger, Joe Kesselman, Philippe Le Hégaret, Arnaud Le Hors, Tom Pixley, Jared Sorensen, Ray Whitmer, Lauren Wood
Call Control Requirements in a Voice Browser Framework
17 April 2001, Brad Porter
XForms Requirements
04 April 2001, Micah Dubinko, Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer, Malte Wedel, Dave Raggett
XML Protocol Requirements
19 March 2001, Vidur Apparao, Alex Ceponkus, Paul Cotton, David Ezell, David Fallside, Martin Gudgin, Oisin Hurley, John Ibbotson, R. Alexander Milowski, Kevin Mitchell, Jean-Jacques Moreau, Eric Newcomer, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Mark Nottingham, Waqar Sadiq, Stuart Williams, Amr Yassin
Pronunciation Lexicon Markup Requirements for the W3C Speech Interface Framework
15 March 2001, Frank Scahill
CSS3 module: Ruby
16 February 2001, Michel Suignard
XML Query Requirements
15 February 2001, Don Chamberlin, Peter Fankhauser, Massimo Marchiori, Jonathan Robie
XPath Requirements Version 2.0
15 February 2001, Steve Muench, Mark Scardina, Mary Fernandez
XSLT Requirements Version 2.0
15 February 2001, Steve Muench, Mark Scardina
Multi-column layout in CSS
18 January 2001, Håkon Wium Lie
Stochastic Language Models (N-Gram) Specification
03 January 2001, Michael K. Brown, Andreas Kellner, Dave Raggett
Voice Browsers, Introduction
04 December 2000, Jim Larson
Natural Language Semantics Markup Language for the Speech Interface Framework
20 November 2000, Deborah A. Dahl
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Views and Formatting Specification
14 November 2000, Ray Whitmer
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification (Second Edition)
29 September 2000, Lauren Wood, Arnaud Le Hors, Vidur Apparao, Steve Byrne, Mike Champion, Scott Isaacs, Ian Jacobs, Gavin Nicol, Jonathan Robie, Robert Sutor, Chris Wilson
XSL Transformations Requirements Version 1.1
25 August 2000, Steve Muench
Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Requirements and Architecture
21 July 2000, Mikael Nilsson, Johan Hjelm, Hidetaka Ohto
Composite Capabilities/Preference Profiles: Terminology and Abbreviations
21 July 2000, Mikael Nilsson
Multimodal Requirements for Voice Markup Languages
10 July 2000, Marianne Hickey
Reusable Dialog Requirements for Voice Markup Language
26 April 2000, Daniel C. Burnett
Techniques For Accessibility Evaluation And Repair Tools
26 April 2000, Chris Ridpath, Wendy Chisholm
User Interface for CSS3
16 February 2000, Tantek Çelik
Model Architecture for Voice Browser Systems
23 December 1999, M. K. Brown, D. A. Dahl
Speech Synthesis Markup Requirements for Voice Markup Languages
23 December 1999, Andrew Hunt
Natural Language Processing Requirements for Voice Markup Languages
23 December 1999, Deborah Dahl
Grammar Representation Requirements for Voice Markup Languages
23 December 1999, M. K. Brown
Dialog Requirements for Voice Markup Languages
23 December 1999, Scott McGlashan
XML-Signature Requirements
14 October 1999, Joseph Reagle Jr.
Paged Media Properties for CSS3
28 September 1999, Robert Stevahn
XHTML™ Document Profile Requirements
6 September 1999, Dave Raggett, Peter Stark, Ted Wugofski
Behavioral Extensions to CSS
4 August 1999, Vidur Apparao, Daniel Glazman, Chris Wilson
CSS Namespace Enhancements (Proposal)
25 June 1999, Peter Linss
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Requirements
29 October 1998, Jon Ferraiolo
Requirements for String Identity Matching and String Indexing
10 July 1998, Martin J. Dürst
XSL Requirements Summary
11 May 1998, Norman Walsh

Working Drafts no longer in development

These Working Drafts have either been dropped as work items or have been incorporated into other documents. The latest version of each of these documents should be an epilogue for the document. The status section of the epilogue explains why the work was discontinued or where the document was incorporated.

XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.1
24 August 2001, James Clark
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language Document Object Model
25 February 2000, Philippe Le Hégaret, Patrick Schmitz
Building XHTML™ Modules - This document has been superseded by Modularization of XHTML
5 January 2000, Murray Altheim, Shane McCarron
Common Markup for micropayment per-fee-links
25 August 1999, Thierry Michel
Web Characterization Terminology & Definitions Sheet
24 May 1999, Brian Lavoie, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
HTTP-ng Architectural Model
10 July 1998, Bill Janssen, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Mike Spreitzer
HTTP-ng Binary Wire Protocol
10 July 1998, Bill Janssen
HTTP-ng Web Interfaces
10 July 1998, Dan Larner
SMUX Protocol Specification
10 July 1998, Jim Gettys, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Short- and Long-Term Goals for the HTTP-NG Project
27 March 1998, Michael Spreitzer, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
PEP Specification: an Extension Mechanism for HTTP
21 November 1997, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Dan Connolly, Rohit Khare, Eric Prud'hommeaux
P3P Architecture Working Group: General Overview of the P3P Architecture
22 October 1997, Joseph Reagle, Martin Presler-Martin, Melissa Dunn, Philip DesAutels, Lorrie Cranor, Mark Ackerman
P3P Vocabulary Working Group: Grammatical Model and Data Design Model
14 October 1997, Mark Ackerman, Lorrie Cranor, Philip DesAutels, Melissa Dunn, Joseph Reagle, Upendra Shardanand
Positioning HTML Elements with Cascading Style Sheets
2 September 1999, Robert Stevahn, Scott Furman, Scott Isaacs
Web Fonts
2 September 1999, Brad Chase, Chuck Rowe, Chris Lilley, David Meltzer, Glen Rippel, Håkon Lie, Randy Polen, Robert Stevahn, Steve Zilles.
Aural Cascading Style Sheets (ACSS) Specification
2 September 1999, Chris Lilley, T.V. Raman
CSS Printing Extensions
2 September 1999, Håkon Wium Lie, Robert Stevahn, Stephen Waters
Digital Signature Label Architecture
10 January 1997, Rohit Khare
Selecting Payment Mechanisms Over HTTP
6 January 1997, Don Eastlake, Rohit Khare, Jim Miller
A Lexical Analyzer for HTML and Basic SGML
8 February 1996, Dan Connolly

Notes

The following are W3C Notes that have been published at the Director's discretion. A Note does not represent commitment by W3C to pursue work related to the Note. Notes that were the result of Acknowledged Member Submissions are indicated.

XUP - Extensible User Interface Protocol
28 May 2002, Jin Yu, Jun Chen (XUP Submission)
XHTML Media Types
30 April 2002, Masayasu Ishikawa
Describing and retrieving photos using RDF and HTTP
19 April 2002, Yves Lafon, Bert Bos
Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL) 1.0
14 March 2002, Arindam Banerji, Claudio Bartolini, Dorothea Beringer, Venkatesh Chopella, Kannan Govindarajan, Alan Karp, Harumi Kuno, Mike Lemon, Gregory Pogossiants, Shamik Sharma, Scott Williams (WSCL Submission)
XML Encryption Requirements
04 March 2002, Joseph Reagle
XML Pipeline Definition Language Version 1.0
28 February 2002, Norman Walsh, Eve Maler (XML Pipeline Definition Language Submission)
Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages
18 February 2002, Martin Dürst, Asmus Freytag
The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 Deployment Guide
11 February 2002, Martin Presler-Marshall
XHTML+SMIL Profile
31 January 2002, Debbie Newman, Aaron Patterson, Patrick Schmitz
An RDF Schema for P3P
25 January 2002, Brian McBride, Rigo Wenning, Lorrie Cranor
Current Patent Practice
24 January 2002, Daniel J. Weitzner
XHTML+Voice Profile 1.0
21 December 2001, Jonny Axelsson, Chris Cross, Håkon W. Lie, Gerald McCobb, T. V. Raman, Les Wilson (XHTML+Voice Profile Submission)
CC/PP Implementors Guide: Harmonization with Existing Vocabularies and Content Transformation Heuristics
20 December 2001, Johan Hjelm, Lalitha Suryanarayana
DAML+OIL (March 2001) Reference Description
18 December 2001, Dan Connolly, Frank van Harmelen, Ian Horrocks, Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Lynn Andrea Stein (DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language Submission)
An Axiomatic Semantics for RDF, RDF-S, and DAML+OIL (March 2001)
18 December 2001, Richard Fikes, Deborah L. McGuinness (DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language Submission)
A Model-Theoretic Semantics for DAML+OIL (March 2001)
18 December 2001, Frank van Harmelen, Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider (DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language Submission)
Annotated DAML+OIL Ontology Markup
18 December 2001, Dan Connolly, Frank van Harmelen, Ian Horrocks, Deborah L. McGuinness, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Lynn Andrea Stein (DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language Submission)
Component Extension (CX) API requirements Version 1.0
11 December 2001, Angel Diaz, Jon Ferraiolo, Stein Kulseth, Philippe Le Hégaret, Chris Lilley, Charles McCathieNevile, Tapas Roy, Ray Whitmer
Tentative Hold Protocol Part 1: White Paper
28 November 2001, Jerry Roberts, Krishnamurthy Srinivasan (Tentative Hold Protocol Submission)
Tentative Hold Protocol Part 2: Technical Specification
28 November 2001, Jerry Roberts, Tim Collier, Pallavi Malu, Krishnamurthy Srinivasan (Tentative Hold Protocol Submission)
DEL - Data Extraction Language
31 October 2001, Eero Lempinen, Harri Saarikoski (DEL Submission)
URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations 1.0
24 September 2001, URI Planning Interest Group
ESI Language Specification 1.0
04 August 2001, Mark Nottingham (ESI submission)
Edge Architecture Specification
04 August 2001, Mark Nottingham, Xiang Liu (ESI submission)
ESI Invalidation Protocol 1.0
04 August 2001, Larry Jacobs, Gary Ling, Xiang Liu (ESI submission)
XML Linking and Style
5 June 2001, Norman Walsh
Implementing the Ruby Module
31 May 2001, Masayasu Ishikawa
An RDF Schema for the XML Information Set
06 April 2001, Richard Tobin
XML Key Management Specification (XKMS)
30 March 2001, Warwick Ford, Phillip Hallam-Baker, Barbara Fox, Blair Dillaway, Brian LaMacchia, Jeremy Epstein, Joe Lapp ("XKMS" submission)
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1
15 March 2001, Erik Christensen, Francisco Curbera, Greg Meredith, Sanjiva Weerawarana ("WSDL" submission)
The [NEL] Newline Character
14 March 2001, Susan Malaika ("Newline" submission)
XBL - XML Binding Language 1.0
23 February 2001, David Hyatt ("XBL" submission)
Representing vCard Objects in RDF/XML
22 February 2001, Renato Iannella ("Representing vCard Objects in RDF/XML" Submission)
Clear, Secure, and Portable Visual Marks for the Cyber World
21 February 2001, TOYOSHIMA Hisashi ("Clear, Secure, and Portable Visual Marks for the Cyber World" Submission)
URISpace 1.0
15 February 2001, Mark Nottingham ("URISpace" Submission)
Common User Agent Problems
06 February 2001, Karl Dubost, Hugo Haas, Ian Jacobs
SOAP Security Extensions: Digital Signature
06 February 2001, Allen Brown, Barbara Fox, Satoshi Hada, Brian LaMacchia, Hiroshi Maruyama, ("SOAP Security Extensions: Digital Signature" Submission)
A P3P Assurance Signature Profile
02 February 2001, Joseph Reagle
XLink Markup Name Control
20 December 2000, Eve Maler, Daniel Veillard, Henry S. Thompson
SOAP Messages with Attachments
11 December 2000, John J. Barton, Satish Thatte, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, (SOAP Attachments Submission)
XEXPR - A Scripting Language for XML
21 November 2000, Gavin Thomas Nicol, (XTND/XEXPR Submission)
XTND - XML Transition Network Definition
21 November 2000, Gavin Thomas Nicol, (XTND/XEXPR Submission)
Shop Log File Format
15 November 2000, Erik Moeser, (Shop Log File Format Submission)
SpeechObjects Specification V1.0
14 November 2000, Daniel C. Burnett, (SpeechObjects Submission)
HTML Working Group Roadmap
8 November 2000, Steven Pemberton, Dave Raggett, Masayasu Ishikawa
Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
06 November 2000, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden, Ian Jacobs
Core Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
06 November 2000, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden, Ian Jacobs
HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
06 November 2000, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden, Ian Jacobs
CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
06 November 2000, Wendy Chisholm, Gregg Vanderheiden, Ian Jacobs
XMSG - XML Messaging Specification
13 October 2000, R. Alexander Milowski (XMSG Submission)
Harvesting RDF Statements from XLinks
29 September 2000, Ron Daniel Jr.
Accessibility Features of SVG
7 August 2000, Charles McCathieNevile, Marja-Riitta Koivunen
SAC: Simple API for CSS
28 July 2000, Bert Bos, Philippe Le Hégaret
JSpeech Grammar Format
5 June 2000, Andrew Hunt (JSGF/JSML Submission)
JSpeech Markup Language
5 June 2000, Andrew Hunt (JSGF/JSML Submission)
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1
8 May 2000, Don Box, David Ehnebuske, Gopal Kakivaya, Andrew Layman, Noah Mendelsohn, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Satish Thatte, Dave Winer (SOAP v1.1 specification Submission)
Voice eXtensible Markup Language (VoiceXML™) version 1.0
5 May 2000, Linda Boyer, Peter Danielsen, Jim Ferrans, Gerald Karam, David Ladd, Bruce Lucas, Kenneth Rehor (Voice eXtensible Markup Language version 1.0 Submission)
Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility
4 May 2000, Jutta Treviranus, Charles McCathieNevile, Ian Jacobs, Jan Richards
XML Japanese Profile
14 April 2000, MURATA Makoto (XML Japanese Profile Submission)
PICS Rating Vocabularies in XML/RDF
27 March 2000, Dan Brickley, Ralph R. Swick
XML Document Navigation Language
23 March 2000, Naoko Ito, Kazuhisa Manabe (XML Document Navigation Language Submission)
A Notation for Character Collections for the WWW
14 January 2000, Martin J. Dürst
Datatypes for DTDs (DT4DTD) 1.0
13 January 2000, Lee Buck, Charles F. Goldfarb, Paul Prescod (DT4DTD Submission)
W3C and Electronic Commerce
7 January 2000, Thierry Michel
Eskimo Snow and Scottish Rain: Legal Considerations of Schema Design
10 December 1999, Joseph Reagle
Using P3P for E-Commerce
29 November 1999, Joe Coco, Saul Klein, Dan Schutzer, San-Yuan Yen, Alan Slater (Using P3P for Ecommerce Submission)
Analysis of P3P and US Patent 5,862,325
27 October 1999, Barry D. Rein, Garland T. Stephens, Henry C. Lebowitz (Joseph M. Reagle, Daniel J. Weitzner, Editors)
TV Broadcast URI Schemes Requirements
21 October 1999, Warner ten Kate, Gomar Thomas, Craig Finseth
The Cambridge Communiqué
7 October 1999, Ralph R. Swick, Henry S. Thompson
Accessibility Features of SMIL
21 September 1999, Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Ian Jacobs
NaVigation Markup Language (NVML)
6 August 1999, Minoru Sekiguchi, Kuniharu Takayama, Hirohisa Naito, Yoshiharu Maeda, Hisayuki Horai, Masahito Toriumi (NVML Submission)
Accessibility Features of CSS
4 August 1999, Ian Jacobs, Judy Brewer
Schema for Object-oriented XML 2.0
30 July 1999, Andrew Davidson, Matthew Fuchs, Mette Hedin, Mudita Jain, Jari Koistinen, Chris Lloyd, Murray Maloney, Kelly Schwarzhof (SOX Submission)
Form-based Device Input and Upload in HTML
28 July 1999, James P. Salsman
Annotation of Web Content for Transcoding
28 July 1999, Masahiro Hori, Rakesh Mohan, Hiroshi Maruyama, Sandeep Singhal
Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): A user side framework for content negotiation
27 July 1999, Franklin Reynolds, Johan Hjelm, Spencer Dawkins, Sandeep Singhal
CC/PP exchange protocol based on HTTP Extension Framework
24 June 1999, Hidetaka Ohto, Johan Hjelm
WAP Binary XML Content Format
24 June 1999, Bruce Martin, Bashar Jano
POIX: Point Of Interest eXchange Language Specification
24 June 1999, Hiroyuki Kanemitsu, Tomihisa Kamada
XFA-Template
14 June 1999, Gavin F. McKenzie et al. (XFA Submission)
XFA-FormCalc
14 June 1999, Gavin F. McKenzie et al. (XFA Submission)
Web Architecture: Describing and Exchanging Data
7 June 1999, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, Ralph R. Swick
XML Canonicalization Requirements
5 June 1999, James Tauber, Joel Nava
Editing the Web: Detecting the Lost Update Problem Using Unreserved Checkout
10 May 1999, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Daniel LaLiberte
Web Characterization: From working group to activity
19 March 1999, Jim Pitkow, Johan Hjelm, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access
15 March 1999, Tomihisa Kamada, Takuya Asada, Masayasu Ishikawa, Shin'ichi Matsui
XML XLink Requirements Version 1.0
24 February 1999, Steven J. DeRose
XML XPointer Requirements Version 1.0
24 February 1999, Steven J. DeRose
XPointer-Information Set Liaison Statement Version 1.0
24 February 1999, Steven J. DeRose
Synchronized Multimedia Modules based upon SMIL 1.0
23 February 1999, Patrick Schmitz, Ted Wugofski, Warner ten Kate
XML Information Set Requirements
18 February 1999, David Megginson
XML Schema Requirements
15 February 1999, Ashok Malhotra, Murray Maloney
Personalized Information Description Language (PIDL)
9 February 1999, Yuichi Koike, Tomonari Kamba, Marc Langheinrich (PIDL Submission)
User Agent Authentication Forms
3 February 1999, Scott Lawrence, Paul Leach (Forms Submission)
Universal Commerce Language and Protocol (UCLP)
20 January 1999, (UCLP Submission)
Document Definition Markup Language (DDML) Specification, Version 1.0
19 January 1999, Ronald Bourret, John Cowan, Ingo Macherius, Simon St. Laurent (DDML Submission)
List of suggested extensions to CSS
10 December 1998, Bert Bos
DrawML Specification
3 December 1998, Håkan Lothigius (DrawML Submission)
XML Fragment Interchange Requirements, Version 1.0
23 November 1998, Paul Grosso
Simple Tree Transformation Sheets 3 (STTS3)
11 November 1998, Daniel Glazman (STTS3 Submission)
The Platform for Privacy Preferences
6 November 1998, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Joseph Reagle
WAP Forum - W3C Cooperation White Paper
30 October 1998, Johan Hjelm, Bruce Martin, Peter King
The Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Protocol
26 October 1998, Neil Webber, Conleth O'Connel, Bruce Hunt, Rick Levine, Laird Popkin, Gord Larose (ICE Submission)
HTML Components
23 October 1998, Chris Wilson (HTML Components Submission)
Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL) 4.0
2 September 1998, John Boyer, Tim Bray, Maureen Gordon (XFDL Submission)
Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions for HTML (HTML+TIME)
18 September 1998, Patrick Schmitz, Jin Yu, Peter Santangeli (HTML+TIME Submission)
Using XSL and CSS together
11 September 1998, Håkon Lie, Bert Bos
XML-QL: A Query Language for XML
Date and Time Formats
27 August 1998, Misha Wolf, Charles Wicksteed (Date+Time Submission)
19 August 1998, Alin Deutsch, Mary Fernandez, Daniela Florescu, Alon Levy, Dan Suciu (XML-QL Submission)
Document Content Description for XML (DCD)
10 August 1998, Tim Bray, Charles Frankston, Ashok Malhotra (DCD Submission)
A Discussion of the Relationship Between RDF-Schema and UML
4 August 1998, Walter W. Chang
P3P Guiding Principles
21 July 1998, Lorrie Faith Cranor
Displaying SMIL Basic Layout with a CSS2 Rendering engine
20 July 1998, Philipp Hoschka, Chris Lilley
Design of HTTP-ng Testbed
10 July 1998, Daniel Veillard
Action Sheets: A Modular Way of Defining Behavior for XML and HTML
19 June 1998, Vidur Apparao, Brendan Eich, Ramanathan Guha, Nisheeth Ranjan (Action Sheets Submission)
Signed Document Markup Language (SDML)
19 June 1998, Jeff Kravitz (SDML Submission)
Hyper Graphics Markup Language (HGML)
19 June 1998, Mike Evans, Steven Furnell, Andy Phippen, Paul Reynolds, Neil Lilly, John Hammac (HGML Submission)
Statement on the Intent and Use of PICS: Using PICS Well
1 June 1998, Joseph Reagle, Daniel J. Weitzner
Vector Markup Language (VML)
13 May 1998, Brian Mathews, Daniel Lee, Brian Dister, John Bowler, Howard Cooperstein, Ajay Jindal, Tuan Nguyen, Peter Wu, Troy Sandal (VML Submission)
WebBroker: Distributed Object Communication on the Web
11 May 1998, John Tigue, Jon Lavinder (WebBroker Submission)
XML in HTML Meeting Report
11 May 1998, Dan Connolly, Lauren Wood
Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML)
10 April 1998, Nabeel Al-Shamma, Robert Ayers, Richard Cohn, Jon Ferraiolo, Martin Newell, Roger K. de Bry, Kevin McCluskey, Jerry Evans (PGML Submission)
Web Schematics on the World Wide Web
31 March 1998, David Duce, Bob Hopgood (Web Schematics Submission)
P3P Protocol and Data Transport Working Group Draft White Paper
24 March 1998, Philip DesAutels, Steve Lucas, Joseph Reagle
Primary Language in HTML
13 March 1998, M.T. Carrasco Benitez
XML Linking Language (XLink) Design Principles
3 March 1998, Eve Maler, Steve DeRose
Web Architecture: Extensible Languages
10 Februray 1998, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly
Compact HTML for Small Information Appliances
9 February 1998, Tomihisa Kamada (Compact HTML Submission)
Voice Browsers
28 January 1998, Dave Raggett, Or Ben-Nattan
XML Data
5 January 1998, Andrew Layman, Edward Jung, Eve Maler, Henry S. Thompson, Jean Paoli, John Tigue, Norbert H. Mikula, Steve De Rose (XML Data Submission)
HTML Threading: Conventions for use of HTML in email
5 January 1998, Eric Berman, Pete Resnick, Nick Shelness (HTML Threading Submission)
Client-Specific Web Services by Using User Agent Attributes
30 December 1997, Tomihisa Kamada, Tomohiko Miyazaki
Comparison of SGML and XML
15 December 1997, James Clark
Introduction to RDF Metadata
13 November 1997, Ora Lassila
W3C Data Formats
29 October 1997, Tim Berners-Lee
Amaya Testbed Environments: the Java and ILU versions of Amaya
28 October 1997, Daniel Veillard
PICS Extension for HTTP Cookies
23 October 1997, Daniel Jaye
Simple Tree Transformation Sheets 2
17 October 1997, Daniel Glazman (STTS2 Submission)
Internet Privacy Working Group Privacy Practices for the Web
17 October 1997, Internet Privacy Working Group (IPWG Submission)
Designing a Social Protocol: Lessons Learned from the Platform for Privacy Preferences
2 October 1997, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Joseph Reagle Jr.
Web Interface Definition Language (WIDL)
22 September 1997, Phillip Merrick, Charles Allen (WIDL Submission)
A Proposal for XSL
27 August 1997, Sharon Adler, Anders Berglund, James Clark, Istvan Cseri, Paul Grosso, Jonathan Marsh, Gavin Nicol, Jean Paoli,
David Schach, Henry S. Thompson, Chris Wilson (XSL Submission)
Generic Diff Format Specification
21 August 1997, Arthur van Hoff, Jonathan Payne (GDIFF Submission)
The HTTP Distribution and Replication Protocol
21 August 1997, Arthur van Hoff, Jonathan Payne, Mark Hapner, Steve Carter, Milo Medin (DRP Submission)
CSS: Potential Enhancements
19 August 1997, Mike Wexler
The Open Software Description Format (OSD)
13 August 1997, Arthur van Hoff, Hadi Partovi, Tom Thai (OSD Submission)
W3C Activities Related to the "Global Information Networks" Ministerial Conference Meeting in Bonn, Germany
11 July 1997, Sally Khudairi, Josef Dietl
W3C Activities Related to the US "Framework for Global Electronic Commerce"
6 July 1997, Joseph Reagle
Meta Content Framework using XML
24 June 1997, R. V. Guha, Tim Bray (XML Meta Content Submission)
Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG
24 June 1997, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Jim Gettys, Anselm Baird-Smith, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Håkon W. Lie, Chris Lilley
Use of CGM as a Scalable Graphics Format
18 June 1997, Roy Platon, Chris Lilley
Navigation through LINK elements in HTML
15 June 1997, Daniel Glazman (Navigation through LINK Submission)
Privacy and Profiling on the Web
2 June 1997, Melissa Dunn, James Gwertzman, Andrew Layman, Hadi Partovi (Web Privacy Submission)
Proposal for an Open Profiling Standard
2 June 1997, Pat Hensley, Max Metral, Upendra Shardanand, Donna Converse, Mike Myers (OPS Submission)
Implementation of OPS Over HTTP
2 June 1997, Pat Hensley, Max Metral, Upendra Shardanand, Donna Converse, Mike Myers
Standard Practices for OPS Systems
2 June 1997, Pat Hensley, Max Metral, Upendra Shardanand, Donna Converse, Mike Myers
White Paper: Joint Electronic Payment Initiative
19 May 1997, Eui-Suk Chung, Daniel Dardailler
Proposal for a Handheld Device Markup Language
9 May 1997, Tim Hyland (HDML Submission)
Handheld Device Markup Language Specification
9 May 1997, Peter King, Tim Hyland (HDML Submission)
PICS-NG Metadata Model and Label Syntax
14 May 1997, Ora Lassila
HTML DTD with support for Style Sheets
21 April 1997, Dave Raggett
Channel Definition Format (CDF)
10 March 1997, Castedo Ellerman (CDF Submission)
Web Collections using XML
7 March 1997, Alex Hopmann, Scott Berkun, George Hatoun, Yaron Goland, Thomas Reardon, Lauren Antonoff, Eric Berman (XML WebCollections Submission)
An Introduction to Amaya
20 February 1997, Vincent Quint, Irène Vatton
HTTP-based Distributed Content Editing Scenarios
13 December 1996, Ora Lassila
Imagemapped Images and Image-Incapable User Agents
26 November 1996, Ian Graham
Resource Description Messages (RDM)
24 July 1996, Darren Hardy
Frame-based layout via Style Sheets
8 June 1996, Bert Bos, David Raggett, Håkon W. Lie
Jigsaw: An Object Oriented Server
7 June 1996, Anselm Baird-Smith
Jigsaw performance evaluation
7 June 1996, Anselm Baird-Smith
HTML predefined icon-like symbols
4 June 1996, Bert Bos
A Proposed Convention for Embedding Metadata in HTML
2 June 1996, Reported by Stuart Weibel
The ILU Requester: Object Services in HTTP Servers
7 March 1996, Paul Everitt
HTML Dialects: Internet Medial and SGML Document Types
6 March 1996, Dan Connolly
Session Identification URI
21 February 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, Dan Connolly
Notification for Proxy Caches
21 February 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker
Extended Log File Format
21 February 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, Brian Behlendorf
Micro Payment Transfer Protocol (MPTP)
22 November 1995, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker
Giving Information About Other Resources in HTML
20 November 1995, Tim Berners-Lee, David Raggett
Proposals for Gathering Consumer Demographics
6 November 1995, Dan Connolly
"Character Set" Considered Harmful
2 May 1995, Dan Connolly

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