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Perens takes on Internet standard body
News That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, with like-minded members in advance of the group's spring meeting in San Francisco.
[November 26, 2002, 10:28]
Web standards group to tackle spam
News An influential Internet standards-setting body has begun a close scrutiny of the mounting problem of email spam, in an effort that could have broad-ranging implications for future email use and security.
[March 6, 2003, 14:01]
W3C bows to royalty-free pressure
News An Internet standards body has decided to drop a controversial proposal that would have allowed patent holders to charge royalties on technology used in Web standards. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards body that oversees some...
[November 15, 2002, 9:24]
Merger could end blog format war
News In an attempt to lasso support from Google, a key proponent of the syndication format RSS has proposed that it merge with its challenger under the auspices of an Internet standards body. Atom partisans are hoping to have a working group established...
[March 10, 2004, 8:10]
Microsoft weighs up Explorer changes
News Microsoft told the Web's leading standards body that it's considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit. This week, the standards body held an ad hoc...
[September 1, 2003, 8:50]
European Net registrars boycott ICANN
News A fight has broken out between a key Net standards body and Web address administrators in Europe. ICANN, however, said the stability of root servers can only be achieved through a cooperative effort by many organisations, not through a single body.
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
AOL gets ready to chat with IBM's Lotus
News SIMPLE is one of three IM protocol standards being considered by the Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards body. However, Visse acknowledged the common protocol is endorsed by the standards body and both companies.
[August 15, 2001, 11:28]
Super-regulator Ofcom merges tasks
News The new body will have responsibility for ensuring fair access to broadband and says it is committed to achieving universal Internet access by 2005. To cope with accelerating convergence between different broadcasting media and telecommunications...
[December 13, 2000, 15:51]
Sun says it may remove MS's Java rights
News Digital Equipment Corp.and Compaq Computer Corp.demanded on Sept.that Sun hand over Java to an international standards body. They can rant and rave about Microsoft, but this isn't about Microsoft, it's about whether Sun can respond to the standards...
[September 23, 1997, 16:19]
Microsoft revamps spec for Web searches
News The coalition of companies on Monday will announce plans to revise the specification within the next year and submit it to an industry standards body. Microsoft did not specify which standards body it will work with.
[April 8, 2002, 15:01]
Tech giants back new Web services
News The companies plan to submit the three new specifications to a standards body, but have yet to decide the body they will work with, said Steven VanRoekel, Microsoft's director of Web services marketing.
[August 9, 2002, 8:45]
WAP Forum CEO: Eye2Eye - Part 2
News The WAP Forum is not a licensing body. We're not a licensing body, we don't negotiate. But the new versions of Sprint phones that are being sold have dual-mode browsers in them that will work with HDML and with WML [WAP Markup Language], because...
[May 31, 2000, 11:55]
Briton appointed chair of IETF
News The Internet Society has announced that Brian Carpenter has been appointed the next chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body responsible for most of the standards that the Internet is built upon.
[March 4, 2005, 16:45]
W3C recommends online forms standard
News The W3C, a standards body that governs some Internet protocols, said on Tuesday that it was publishing the XForms specification as a candidate recommendation. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has reached a critical stage in a new standard that...
[November 13, 2002, 15:50]
London Healthcare Trust Gives GPs Secure Remote Access to Patient Data
White Papers Kensington and Chelsea Primary Care Trust (PCT) is the NHS body responsible for General Practitioner (GP) services for 190,000 people in central London. GP systems now have to meet stringent standards to ensure that they will integrate with those...
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
Online ad squabble nears resolution
News A key Internet standards body is scheduled to issue new guidelines next month for counting online ad "impressions," a move that could affect hundreds of millions of dollars in contested annual payments from advertisers to Web publishers.
[October 22, 2001, 12:45]
W3C retreats from royalty policy
News An Internet standards body has retreated from a proposal that would have allowed companies to claim patent rights and demand royalties for technologies used in its standards. The World Wide Web Consortium works with developers, software makers and...
[February 26, 2002, 14:17]
Bug-reporting guidelines get swatted
News A proposal on how security bugs in software should be responsibly disclosed to the public was withdrawn from the Internet's primary technical-standards body on Monday. Members of the security section of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the...
[March 19, 2002, 11:17]
IM compatibility closer to reality
News The Internet's governing technical body quietly gave its stamp of approval Thursday to a group intent on creating an open standard for instant messaging. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the group that sets the technical standards for...
[November 4, 2002, 11:34]
Microsoft promises Exchange improvements
News Akers assured ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia Microsoft would take the final specifications to the relevant standards body so other mail server software will be able to interoperate with Exchange.
[May 6, 2005, 13:45]
