Keynote Title : Evolvability: a dream which the community committed to and desperately needs. 

Keynote Abstract :  

Evolvability has been the "holy grail" in that not many people understand where or what it is, and how it is achievable. The last five years of the Consortium's work have been excercises in the evolution of technology. We can now define much more precisely how to make global systems evolvable. The talk will outline the architecture of the Web and the relationship between specifications such as HTTP, XML, RDF and HTML in this context.