A Comprehensive View of WWW Standards: Slide List

• The State of Web Standards
• Purpose of this talk
• Organization of talk
• Vision for the "World Wide Web"...
• Three categories of web standards
• But first, some words about ...
• The nice thing about standards...
• Standards follow rather than
• Who makes standards?
• Some Standards Organizations
• Internet Engineering Task Force
• Internet Society
• IETF structure
• IETF Working Groups
• IETF Documents
• IETF RFC Categories and Process
• IETF Scope
• World Wide Web Consortium
• W3C and IETF relationship
• CommerceNet
• Standards & Organizations
• Standards for Web Content
• Short diversion: What's SGML?
• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
• HTML design goals
• Why HTML isn't
• HTML 2.0
• HTML 2.0 elements
• ... more HTML 2.0 elements
• Summary: HTML 2.0
• Other data on the Internet: MIME
• Internet Media Types ("MIME types")
• Images on the Web
• Other content on the web
• Other content on the web
• Content on the web
• Content needs standards
• Network Protocols for the Web
• HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• HTTP/1.0 added features
• HTTP/1.0 specification
• HTTP standard
• Other related protocol work
• Identifiers in the Web
• Uniform Resource Locators
• URL Requirements
• URL Proposed Standard
• Some URL schemes
• URLs in plain text
• Relative URLs
• Uniform Resource Names
• URC: Uniform Resource Characteristics
• References on the Web
• Summary, Part I
• Overview of Part II
• HTML Working Group activity
• HTML Tables
• File Upload
• HTML Internationalization
• Internationalization problems:
• HTML Style and Style Sheets
• The debate over inline style
• Compound Documents in HTML
• HTML Link model
• HTML Feature identification
• HTML and IETF
• HTML Standards status
• Other media standards
• Content:
• The problems with HTTP
• Things are more complex now
• Prospective growth
• Toward better web performance
• HTTP/1.1 Highlights
• Other HTTP work
• HTTP-NG
• HTTP and distributed objects
• Web Security
• Access control and ratings
• Web network protocols
• References in the Internet
• New URL schemes
• Uniform Resource Names (URN)
• URN naming mechanisms
• Uniform Resource Characteristics (URCs)
• Some unsolved problems
• Current Web Standards
• The Future

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