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Issue 72: December 2003

Kofi Annan, Tim Berners-Lee Greet the World Summit Event for Schools

10 December 2003: Students and educators participating in the World Summit on the Information Society are laying the foundation for a global infrastructure of school networks and a culture of peace. On 10 December in cooperation with the CERN SIS-Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee sent an email to summit participants at 800 schools in 80 countries using the NeXT computer that was used to invent the World Wide Web. The U.N. Cyberschoolbus and the European Schoolnet (photos) co-organized the World Summit Event for Schools.

W3C Web Legal Defense Fund Established

11 December 2003: As announced by Steve Bratt, W3C COO, the W3C Web Legal Defense Fund has been established for voluntary financial contributions to support legal response when W3C technology is threatened by IPR claims. The first solicitation for funds, forthcoming in a separate announcement, will be to support the work of the HTML Patent Advisory Group (PAG).

Jigsaw 2.2.3 Released

2 December 2003: Jigsaw version 2.2.3 is available for download. The new version features complete SSL support in WebDAV and has fixes for stability and HTTP/1.1 compliance. New tools for manipulating JPEGs are in the package. Jigsaw is W3C's open source Web server platform implemented in Java. W3C thanks the many contributors to this release.

C.M. Sperberg-McQueen Wins XML Cup 2003

10 December 2003: Michael Sperberg-McQueen of the W3C and Adam Bosworth of BEA received the XML Cup 2003 at the IDEAlliance XML 2003 conference today in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The cup is awarded to industry visionaries and pioneers for contributions to the Extensible Markup Language (XML). Visit the XML home page.

DOM Level 3 Validation Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

15 December 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Validation Specification to Proposed Recommendation. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. This module of DOM3 ensures that documents remain or become valid. Comments are invited through 14 January. Read about the DOM Activity.

Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

18 December 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 18 February 2004. Speech grammars allow voice-based application authors to create rules describing what users are expected to say after listening to each application prompt. Visit the Voice Browser home page.

Resource Description Framework (RDF) Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

15 December 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are invited through 19 January. The RDF language is presented in six technical reports. RDF is used to represent information and to exchange knowledge in the Web. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.

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