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Web Standards Body Finalises Anti-patent Policy
News The Web's leading standards body on Tuesday finalised a patent policy banning the use of most royalty-bearing technology in its technical recommendations, an issue that sparked a clash between open-source advocates and software makers.
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
Web Standards Body Advances TV Features
News The goal of making the Web act more like television has inched closer to reality with the revision of a key multimedia standard. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) last week recommended SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) 2.0, the...
[August 16, 2001, 10:47]
Sun May Join Web Services Body
News Julson declined to comment on Microsoft's stance but said Sun wants to work with IBM and Microsoft on the Web services standards process. The WS-I is creating guidelines and testing tools for businesses to use Web services standards in a compatible...
[May 7, 2002, 13:00]
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]
Patent Fight Holds Up Web Standards
News A key Web standards body has deadlocked over how to handle patented technology that comes with royalties attached, raising questions about the future architecture of the Net. Longtime Microsoft foe Sun Microsystems, for one, is trying to ensure...
[July 11, 2002, 14:01]
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]
Web Services Spec Gets Makeover
News A Web services directory effort spawned by Microsoft, IBM and Ariba has been updated before its submission to an industry standards body. A consortium of 220 companies is releasing a third version of the specification on Tuesday and submitting the...
[July 29, 2002, 13:41]
W3C Lathers Up Soap Standard
News Standards body the World Wide Web Consortium said on Wednesday that it is close to finalising an upgrade to an important Web services protocol called Soap. However, the most recent Web services standard proposals, including Web Services Security...
[May 8, 2003, 10:07]
Split Threatens Web Services Standards
News IBM, Microsoft and BEA Systems plan to submit a high-profile Web services proposal to the Oasis standards body, company executives said, despite an ongoing effort by the World Wide Web Consortium to sort through similar proposals.
[April 16, 2003, 12:59]
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]
Sun Signs Up To Rivals' Security Standards
News Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign have submitted a security specification for Web services to an industry standards body, a move that has won the backing of an unlikely supporter: Sun Microsystems. Its three creators -- Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign...
[June 27, 2002, 15:52]
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]
Seven New Members For Liberty Alliance
News Liberty Alliance, a far-reaching body working on identity standards for Web services, has signed up seven new members. It is notable the body is now also talking about using its standards for applications such as digital rights management -- a...
[October 18, 2004, 15:55]
Draft Choreography Spec Published By W3C
News Standards body the World Wide Web Consortium on Monday released a draft version of Web Services Choreography Description Language, a specification intended to create an standard format for modelling business processes that will work in conjunction...
[April 30, 2004, 16:00]
WS-I To Clear Path For Web Services Security
News A standards body is hoping to remove one of the biggest hurdles standing in the way of greater Web services adoption. One security specification expected to be under consideration by the WS-I is WS-Security, which is now being developed in the...
[April 2, 2003, 9:06]
Web Services Need Trust As Well As Standards
News Proposed Web services security specifications are to be submitted to an international standards body by some of the industry's major vendors. The latest version of the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification is being submitted to...
[July 5, 2002, 9:04]
IBM Bypasses Microsoft Web Services Spec
News The authors of WS-Notification include Akamai Technologies, grids standards body the Globus Alliance, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SAP, Sonic Software and Tibco Software. IBM and its partners expect to submit the specification to a standards body for...
[January 21, 2004, 11:05]
Microsoft Gets Backing For .Net Tools
News Microsoft on Thursday said that a technology standards body has endorsed programming tools key to expanding the appeal of the company's .Net Web services plan. More than two years ago, Sun said it would turn Java over to the same standards body...
[December 14, 2001, 6:31]
ECMA Ratifies C# As Standard
News Microsoft on Thursday said a technology standards body has endorsed programming tools key to expanding the appeal of the company's .Net Web services plan. More than two years ago, Sun said it would turn Java over to the same standards body, but...
[December 14, 2001, 9:27]
Web Services Standards Fail To Unite
News The proof-of-concept will take place at a meeting of the Web Services Reliability technical committee of the standards body Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis).
[September 5, 2003, 15:05]
