Resources: World Wide Web and Internet standards

This list was posted in May, 2005. Entries after that time are dated (month and year, for example, June 2005).

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Standards for the World Wide Web are established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). STC is a Member organization within W3C. Neil Perlin (Associate Fellow, Boston Chapter) is the STC representative on the W3C Advisory Committee, which is composed of one representative from each Member organization.

Individual STC members can become involved in W3C working group activities, or monitor W3C activities and report to STC. Members who participate in working groups can not disseminate internal working group discussions to all STC members. For more information visit http://www.w3.org/.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the W3C. Web Content Authoring Guidelines. http://www.w3c.org/WAI. These guidelines are the basis for national
laws on accessibility, including “Section 508” in the US: http://www.section508.gov/. Posted June 2005.

Internet Standards

The Intenet Engineering Task Force conducts standards development activities (www.ietf.org).

RFC 3987 Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs). Internet Engineering Task Force.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt.

RFC 3490 Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA). Internet Engineering Task Force. (also several related specs).

Alliance for the Advancement of Technology (AAT). Integrated Chronological Applications System (ICAS)

AAT ICAS Agave-2063-ICAS conformance level B specifcations for CSS styles for scalar content.

AAT ICAS Agave-9900-web index of AAT ICAS Agave. Posted May 2006.

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