W3C Launches XML Binary Characterization Working Group

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Working Drafts: XML Binary
Characterization

Working Drafts: XML Binary
Characterization 03/14/2005 05:58 PM
2005-02-24: The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binary Characterization Measurement Methodologies and updates to XML Binary Characterization Use Cases and XML Binary Characterization Properties. The drafts will help to decide if standardized and optimized serialization can be used to improve the generation, parsing, transmission and storage of XML-based data. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

Use Cases: XML Binary Characterization

Use Cases: XML Binary Characterization 07/28/2004 04:28 PM
2004-07-28: The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binary Characterization Use Cases. Presenting documented examples, the draft will help to decide if standardized and optimized serialization can be used to improve the generation, parsing, transmission and storage of XML-based data. Comments are welcome. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

XML Binary Characterization Notes
Published

XML Binary Characterization Notes
Published 03/31/2005 07:44 PM
2005-03-31: The XML Binary Characterization Working Group has released its evaluation, recommending that W3C produce a standard for binary interchange of XML. Published today as a Working Group Note, XML Binary Characterization is supported by use cases, properties and measurement methodologies. Optimized serialization can improve the generation, parsing, transmission and storage of XML-based data. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

W3C Launches Timed Text Working Group

W3C Launches Timed Text Working Group 01/17/2003 03:31 PM
17 January 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) within the SYMM (Synchronized Multimedia) Activity. The TTWG is chartered to develop an XML based format used to represent streamable text synchronized with timed media like audio or video. Movie captions on the Web are a typical timed text application. Read the group's charter and more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity. (News archive)

Web Hypertext Application Technology
Working Group Launches Mailing List

Web Hypertext Application Technology
Working Group Launches Mailing List 06/04/2004 08:42 PM

The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group
has published the first public working
draft of SPARQL Variable Binding

The W3C RDF Data Access Working Group
has published the first public working
draft of SPARQL Variable Binding 01/02/2005 11:31 AM
xmlhack Jan 2 2005 1:45PM GMT

Quality Assurance Working Group Updates
Three Working Drafts

Quality Assurance Working Group Updates
Three Working Drafts 11/08/2002 08:17 PM
8 November 2002: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has updated three Working Drafts in its seven-part QA Framework: the Introduction, Process and Operational Guidelines; and Specification Guidelines. Learn more about the QA Activity and the roadmap for ensuring that W3C technologies are well implemented. (News archive)

Working Draft: Assigning Media Types to
Binary Data in XML

Working Draft: Assigning Media Types to
Binary Data in XML 06/08/2004 09:45 PM
2004-06-08: The XML Protocol Working Group and the Web Services Description Working Group jointly released the First Public Working Draft of Assigning Media Types to Binary Data in XML. The draft describes how to indicate the media type of XML element content and the way to specify that type in XML Schema. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive)

XML-Binary Packaging and SOAP
Transmission Optimization Working Drafts
Published

XML-Binary Packaging and SOAP
Transmission Optimization Working Drafts
Published 02/10/2004 10:39 AM
2004-02-09: The XML Protocol Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP). XOP allows efficient serializing of certain types of XQuery and XPath 2.0 element content. Based on XOP, the group also published an updated Working Draft of the SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism for improving SOAP performance. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive)

W3C Web Services Working Groups Release
New Drafts on Handling of Binary Data

W3C Web Services Working Groups Release
New Drafts on Handling of Binary Data 06/09/2004 03:56 PM
XMLMania.com Jun 9 2004 7:08PM GMT

IETF Working Group for Atom

IETF Working Group for Atom 05/06/2004 07:24 AM

A new IETF working group has been proposed for Atom. A draft IETF working group charter may be found here.

IETF Atom working group

IETF Atom working group 05/06/2004 11:42 AM
"The goal for the working group is to produce a single feed format and a single editing protocol."

RSS 1.0 Released by International
Working Group

RSS 1.0 Released by International
Working Group 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

HTML Working Group Rechartered

HTML Working Group Rechartered 08/23/2002 11:12 PM
23 August 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the rechartering of the HTML Working Group through August 2004. The group seeks to fulfill the promise of XML for applying XHTML to a wide variety of platforms. It supports rich Web content, combining XHTML with W3C work in areas such as math, scalable vector graphics, synchronized multimedia, and forms. Read the group's work items in its charter and visit the HTML home page. (News archive)

IETF Working Group Guidelines and
Procedures

IETF Working Group Guidelines and
Procedures 03/09/2004 01:47 AM
The next meeting of the IETF is scheduled for August 1-6, 2004 in San Diego, CA, USA.  Excerpts from RFC2418. ...

Other News: Anti-Phishing Working Group

Other News: Anti-Phishing Working Group 12/31/2004 05:03 AM
The Anti-Phishing Working Group provides lists of recent phishing attacks and advice on how to defend against them.

Web Hypertext Application Technology
Working Group

Web Hypertext Application Technology
Working Group 06/08/2004 03:02 AM
Web Hypertext Application Technologies Working Group .. Mozilla, Opera Developers Join On Web Apps .. Para-standards-bodies proliferating .. WHAT WG .. WHATWG

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MathML Working Group Notes Published

MathML Working Group Notes Published 11/10/2003 11:38 PM
2003-11-10: The Math Working Group has released Units in MathML, Structured Types in MathML 2.0 and Bound Variables in MathML as Working Group Notes. MathML is an XML application that allows mathematical notation and content to be served, received and processed on the Web. Visit the Math home page. (News archive)

"Web Hypertext Application Technology
Working Group"

"Web Hypertext Application Technology
Working Group" 07/08/2004 09:03 PM

ScreamingMedia Joins WSRP Working Group

ScreamingMedia Joins WSRP Working Group 06/03/2002 01:54 PM

ITU Working Group for Internet
Governance meets

ITU Working Group for Internet
Governance meets 09/23/2004 01:43 PM

The International Telecommunications Union held two days of meetings to develop a Working Group for Internet Governance. The group was asked to consider spam, viruses, and cybercrime as leading issues threatening cyberspace.

The meeting was requested by a 2003 World Summit on the Information Society meeting . Attendees were nominated as "representatives of civil society."

Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)

Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) 02/12/2004 08:41 AM
Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)
http://www.antiphishing.org

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)is an industry association focused on eliminating the identity theft and fraud that result from the growing problem of phishing and email spoofing. The organization provides a forum to discuss phishing issues, define the scope of the phishing problem in terms of hard and soft costs, and share information and best practices for eliminating the problem. Where appropriate, the APWG will also look to share this information with law enforcement.

Membership is open to qualified financial institutions, online retailers, ISPs, the law enforcement community, and solutions providers. Note that because phishing attacks and email fraud are sensitive subjects for many organizations that do business online, the APWG has a policy of maintaining the confidentiality of member organizations.

It serves as a public and industry resource for information about the problem of phishing and email fraud, including identification and promotion of pragmatic technical solutions that can provide immediate protection and benefits against phishing attacks. The analysis, forensics, and archival of phishing attacks to the Web site are currently powered by Tumbleweed Communications' Message Protection Lab.

IETF Shutters E-Mail Working Group

IETF Shutters E-Mail Working Group 09/22/2004 04:49 PM
The working group's masters determine the best course of action is to let Sender ID sort itself out.

Anti-Phishing Working Group Meeting

Anti-Phishing Working Group Meeting 04/09/2004 05:30 PM

I was out all day yesterday to attend the Anti-Phishing Working Group meeting at Wells Fargo World HQ in San Francisco.  About one hundred people from wide assortment of backgrounds were there, some from law enforcement agencies like the Secret Service and FBI, lawyers, prosecutors, financial services, e-tailers, solutions vendors, and security experts.  APWG did an impressive job of pulling them altogether to focus on the phishing epidemic which continues to grow.

While everyone wanted to pool resources to combat phishing, I sensed a common desire to protect details about ongoing APWG activities from the public for various reasons.  Since I am not sure what APWG's policy is about blogging, I will limit this post to my thoughts and observations.

Toolbars

Warm receptions received by Account Guard feature of eBay Toolbar and Dan Boneh's SpoofGuard means more toolbars in the near future.  I predict we'll see about ten security-related toolbars released before this year is over.  Since highly integrated client-side software like browser toolbars are one of my specialties, all this is good news for me but I couldn't help worrying about the oncoming glut of toolbars, sidebars, and deskbars causing confusion among users.

Microsoft

Microsoft needs to do more to combat phishing.  Actually, they need to do 'less' by disabling or limiting use of hyperlinks and javascript in Outlook and Hotmail.  Since phishing is causing real financial damages to companies and individuals, Microsoft created an arguably very large liability exposure by introducing DHTML e-mail in Outlook.

My opinion is that hyperlinks in e-mail contents should require the user to approve each navigation after viewing a dialog that clearly indicate the link destination.  This constraint can be eased depending on the age of the hyperlinks because destination phishing websites are more likely to be takendown or abandoned over time.  I also think javascript should be disabled completely in e-mail contents to protect against new breed of javascript obfuscated webpages.

Hunters vs. Butchers

Law enforcement agencies are IMHO still in the hunter mode, meaning hackers they find and prosecute are more or less trophies for assuring the public.  Seen as services, they are open to denial of service attacks by organized hackers arming script-kiddies to overload or slowdown cybercops.  They need to think about ways to shift-gear from hunter to butchers mode now, if not just against phishers, then for homeland security.

Takedown.com

Most difficult part of fighting against phishing is taking down phishing websites.  Differences and confusino in law and legal jurisdictions, cross-language communication issues, availability, authority verification problems, and other issues make taking down a fraud site a skill or an art of social networking, ingenuity, and patience which most companies do not have.

Solutions suggested so far like contacts and standards are useless IMHO.  A more effective solution is to encourage entrepreneurs to startup federated or franchised businesses to offer takedown services around globe and around the clock with the local touch.  Having middlemen like them solves most of the issues mentioned above.

Spoofback

Considering the difficulty with takedown, another options is to 'spoof back' by posting phony information to the phishing websites in order to spoil the goods by diluting it with bad info.  Instead of receiving 3,000 good responses, phishers will receive 300,000 responses most of which will be bad.  Another variation is to post user info leading to honeypots in order to phish the phishers.  I am not sure about the legal issues, but hackback risk is no worse than the takedown IMHO.

APWG Future Threat Models SIG

I have volunteered to participate in the Future Threat Models SIG at APWG because I am both highly creative and insanely paranoid which means I can see blindspots where none exists.  :-)  I probably won't be posting about the activities there but I will post my thoughts and publicize imminent threats like the XSS Network threat I posted about before.

Web Services Choreography Working Group
Created

Web Services Choreography Working Group
Created 01/14/2003 06:32 PM
14 January 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Web Services Choreography Working Group as part of the Web Services Activity. Choreography describes linkages and usage patterns between Web services. The group is chartered to create the definition of a choreography, one or more languages built on WSDL 1.2 for describing choreography, and rules for choreographed Web services. Read the Working Group charter and more about W3C work on Web services. (News archive)

Working Group Note: Extending XLink 1.0

Working Group Note: Extending XLink 1.0 02/01/2005 08:54 PM
2005-01-27: The XML Core Working Group has released Extending XLink 1.0 as a Working Group Note. The document describes changes that could be incorporated into an XLink Version 1.1 specification to address usability, dependence on annotations provided by external grammars, and interoperability. The Working Group plans no updates to this Note. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

Brief: Working group formed on standard
server management

Brief: Working group formed on standard
server management 12/15/2003 05:48 PM
The Distributed Management Task Force has formed a working group including major hardware and software vendors to develop standard server-hardware management interfaces

Web Services Architecture Working Group
Notes Published

Web Services Architecture Working Group
Notes Published 02/11/2004 04:30 PM
2004-02-11: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released Working Group Notes representing the culmination of their work: Web Services Architecture, Usage Scenarios, the Glossary, and Requirements. The reference architecture identifies Web services components, defines their relationships and establishes constraints. Visit the Web Services home page. (News archive)

Working Group Note: DOM Assessment for
Multimodal Interaction

Working Group Note: DOM Assessment for
Multimodal Interaction 05/10/2004 01:18 PM
2004-05-10: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released the Requirements and Capabilities Assessment for the Document Object Model (DOM) as a Working Group Note. Based on their framework. the Multimodal Interaction Activity is extending the Web user interface to allow multiple modes of interaction: aural, visual and tactile. The document examines interfaces between modality components and their host environment. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (News archive)

IETF Shuts Down Anti-Spam Working Group

IETF Shuts Down Anti-Spam Working Group 09/22/2004 04:36 PM
Contentious discussions in group boded ill for consensus on a standard

Working Group Note: SSML say-as
Attribute Values

Working Group Note: SSML say-as
Attribute Values 06/05/2005 10:46 PM
2005-05-26: The Voice Browser Working Group has released SSML 1.0 say-as attribute values as a Working Group Note. The note provides definitions for the interpret-as, format, and detail attributes that cover many of the most common uses for the say-as element in the Speech Synthesis Markup Language. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

Working Group Note: Web Services
Internationalization Usage Scenarios

Working Group Note: Web Services
Internationalization Usage Scenarios 08/03/2004 04:41 PM
2004-08-02: The Web Services Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has released a Working Group Note Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios with additional guidance for implementers of Web service technologies. The document examines how language, culture and related issues interact with Web services architecture and technology. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)

SAP Defining Role in Plants With Portals
and Vendor Working Group

SAP Defining Role in Plants With Portals
and Vendor Working Group 05/18/2004 06:19 PM
ZDNet May 18 2004 9:07PM GMT

Working Group Note: Authorizing Read
Access to XML Content

Working Group Note: Authorizing Read
Access to XML Content 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
2005-06-20: The Voice Browser Working Group has released Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the Processing Instruction 1.0 as a Working Group Note for information only. This note describes a mechanism being used in the industry that allows a content provider to use a processing instruction embedded within XML content to specify the access policy of that content. Implementors should perform their own security analysis. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

Working Group Note: Authoring Techniques
for Device Independence

Working Group Note: Authoring Techniques
for Device Independence 02/18/2004 05:28 PM
2004-02-18: The Device Independence Working Group has completed work on Authoring Techniques for Device Independence. The document addresses the rapidly changing area of delivering content to diverse devices. It covers content creation, maintenance and adaptation, and user interaction with applications. Learn more about the W3C Device Independence Activity. (News archive)

5. Consultations On Setting Up Working
Group On Internet Governance Conclude In
Geneva

5. Consultations On Setting Up Working
Group On Internet Governance Conclude In
Geneva 09/23/2004 07:29 PM
United Nations Sep 23 2004 10:48PM GMT

8. Consultations On Setting Up Working
Group On Internet Governance Conclude In
Geneva

8. Consultations On Setting Up Working
Group On Internet Governance Conclude In
Geneva 09/27/2004 04:41 AM
United Nations Sep 27 2004 8:39AM GMT

Consultations on setting up a Working
Group on Internet Governance conclude in
Geneva. More

Consultations on setting up a Working
Group on Internet Governance conclude in
Geneva. More 09/22/2004 09:59 AM
United Nations Sep 22 2004 1:44PM GMT

8. Consultations On Setting Up Working
Group On Internet Governance To Be Held
In Geneva From 20 To 21 Septemb

8. Consultations On Setting Up Working
Group On Internet Governance To Be Held
In Geneva From 20 To 21 Septemb 09/17/2004 08:21 AM
United Nations Sep 17 2004 1:08PM GMT
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