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The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0. The technology described in this document “Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0“ enhances the foundation to integrate automated processing of human language into core Web technologies. ITS 2.0 bears many commonalities with its predecessor, ITS 1.0 but provides additional concepts that are designed to foster the automated creation and processing of multilingual Web content. ITS 2.0 focuses on HTML, XML-based formats in general, and can leverage processing based on the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF), as well as the Natural Language Processing Interchange Format (NIF). Comments are welcome through 22 October. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.

The Device APIs Working Group has published a Working Draft of Network Service Discovery. This specification defines a mechanism for an HTML document to discover and subsequently communicate with HTTP-based services advertised via common discovery protocols within the current network. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a new Working Draft of vCard Ontology. The document describes a mapping of the vCard specification (RFC6350) to RDF/OWL. The goal is to promote the use of vCard for the description of people and organizations utilizing semantic web techniques and allowing compatibility with traditional vCard implementations. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a Working Draft of the EXI Canonicalization (EXI C14N) specification. It describes a relatively simple method for generating a physical representation, the canonical form, of an EXI document that accounts for the permissible differences between two logically equivalent EXI documents. One application field for the canonical form of an XML-based document or document subset is digital signature. Supporting EXI canonicalization without going through plain-text XML is preferable in constrained environments and device classes where document size and processing overhead are critical. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

Today W3C appointed two new Chairs to the Tracking Protection Working Group: Justin Brookman and Carl Cargill. They join continuing co-Chair Matthias Schunter. The Working Group updated two draft DNT specifications this week. Matthias Schunter announced this week a stable plan for reaching Last Call. Learn more about the Tracking Protection Working Group.