On 21 June 21, about 100 people witnessed the first public tests and demonstrations of the
Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P). The interoperability session gave companies the opportunity
to unveil new prototypes, to test them with other P3P services, and to provide input into the P3P
design process. The prototypes are early versions of P3P-compliant tools expected to be offered
to end users in the coming year.
An image of a IDcide extended browser referencing aol.com
IDcide Privacy Companion: a browser extension
allowing users to find out whether a site is using cookies, and to block selected cookies.
Note the ticked items shown above following P3P on the top row indicating that the site
has a good P3P policy as far as the user is concerned and IDcide allows the cookies to be exchanged.
ENC's Privacy Information
Management System: The browser part uses a proxy server to fetch
P3P policies and compares them with user preferences. The system also includes
an authoring tool to generate P3P policies and a site bureau where Web
sites can register their privacy policies.
YOUpowered's Orby Privacy
Plus: allows users to accept or deny cookies and determine how well a site matches
their privacy preferences. The Orby Trust Meter displays a trust rating
determined by analyzing a site's P3P policy. Here is a view of the Orby toolbar.
An image of a IDcide extended browser referencing aol.com
AT&T and Microsofts's User Agent: this is a jointly developed
browser helper object for Internet Explorer.
It adds a privacy button to the browser window that allows users to set up their privacy preferences, check
how well a site's P3P policy matches their preferences, and view a site's
privacy policy in P3P or human-readable format. This shows that the site uses P3P and cookies.
It has a privacy seal and the user can click to find out its policy.
A Conference, MathML and Math on the Web, will take place on 19-21 October at the University of Illinois.
A tutorial, Practical Scientific and Technical Publishing Using MathML on the first day will give a
practical introduction to MathML 2.0. An overview of applications for rendering, computing, and
authoring MathML will be presented.
The Conference itself starts on Friday, 20 October. W3C will be presenting the MathML support
provided by Amaya including the editing of MathML within the browser/editor.
The total number of W3C Members has risen to 437. Recent new Members are:
B-Bop Associates: known as the XML Platform Company, B-Bop is a provider of an XML platform for Web-based content management and e-business information exchange applications to enable businesses to transform, store, and repurpose critical information between their customers, suppliers and business partners. B-Bop's Xfinity Server delivers dynamic, personalized and up-to-date content to maximize its usefulness to the information consumer. With First Call, they recently released a jointly created free-of-charge Document Type Definition for financial research documents which provides an initial framework for structuring the content of such documents.
Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.: the
financial services provider and the world's largest online broker.
Enterworks, Inc.: Web-enabled data integration solutions for healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and government customers.
Evalis AG: a German Decision Making Company.
Extreme Logic: Atlanta-based Extreme Logic, previously Omni Technology Centers, builds and delivers e-business solutions, focusing on technology strategy, business process design, application development and technical architecture. All solutions are designed to be easily maintained and scale as an organization grows.
Hiawatha Island Software Company: HiSoftware of Concord, New Hampshire, recently
launched metaPackager, a knowledge management software solution that enables cataloging and archiving
of unstructured, previously un-indexable information, such as email, PDFs, maps, drawings, scanned paper documents, and Wave files. metaPackager automatically enable the use of rich XML, HTML or XHTML metadata with any data or file type for enhanced, fielded search and retrieval of information on the Internet or an Intranet.
Invention Machine Corporation: this Boston
Company's motto is Powering the Semantic Web. Companies use Invention Machine's technology
to automatically build knowledge bases and populate Internet portals and Web sites.
Labyrinten Data AB: Labyrinten is a subsidiary of Dolphin Computer Access Ltd,
United Kingdom. Dolphin is a leading company within the area of
adaptive computer equipment for people who are non sighted or partially sighted.
Labyrinten Data AB specialises in digital audio,
multimedia and applications for people with disabilities.
Massachusetts Medical Society: founded in 1781, the MMS is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the United States.
MEGA International: an e-business modelling company. The company is a contributor to the development of OMG's UML specification and is active in the bodies associated with e-business and XML. MEGA has been active in the Electronic Business XML Initiative (ebXML) which is a joint venture of the United Nations' Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (CEFACT) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). ebXML is an open, vendor-neutral project to establish a global technical and semantic framework that will enable XML to be used in a uniform and consistent manner for the exchange of all electronic business information via the Internet.
National Research Council Canada: NRC is Canada's premier science and technology research organization, a leader in scientific and technical research, the diffusion of technology and the dissemination of scientific and technical information.
Netegrity, Inc.: this Waltham based company's major product is SiteMinder, an e-commerce infrastructure solution that provides secure portal management capabilities as well as single sign-on and authentication management, entitlement management, distributed administration and affiliate services.
ObjectSpace, Inc.: OpenBusiness is Dallas-based
ObjectSpace's e-service solution that enables B2B partners to build integration solutions
rapidly without the need for alterations to existing software applications.
POCIT Labs AB: a Stockholm-based company.
Seiko Epson Corporation: the colour solutions company.
Shana Corporation: this Canadian company is developing and demonstrating the use of XForms-compliant XML documents in various components of its integrated e-form management solution that addresses the fundamental challenge of managing large numbers of electronic forms across the enterprise.
Vocal Point, Inc.: San Francisco-based Vocal Point software allows end-users to obtain Web content using spoken commands via any telephone, including wireless without content rewriting.
Vordel Ltd.: Dublin-based Vordel provides fast track B2B solutions. TalkXML is a powerful suite of applications that enable an enterprise to easily establish secure communication channels to any organisation in its B2B business network.
YOUpowered Inc.: based in New York, it is a leading provider of permission based personalization software for ebusiness and consumers. The company offers software that allows computer users to take advantage of P3P to match their privacy preferences to the privacy policy at websites.
ZoomON AB: the company's innovative Java-based graphics technology and content management tools allow users to zoom, pan and focus on visual details with remarkable clarity via any standard Web browser.