W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)
2 December 2013 | Archive
The Internet Architecture Board and W3C just announced a Workshop, Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring, 28 February – 01 March 2014, in London (UK). The event is co-located with the 89th IETF Conference that will take place from 02 – 07 March at the Hilton Metropole in central London (UK).
The Vancouver IETF plenary concluded that pervasive monitoring represents an attack on the Internet. Pervasive monitoring targets protocol data that we also need for network manageability and security. This data is captured and correlated with other data. There is an open problem as to how to enhance protocols so as to maintain network manageability and security but still limit data capture and correlation.
The overall goal of the workshop is to steer IETF and W3C work so as to be able to improve or strengthen
the Internet in the face of pervasive monitoring. A workshop report in the form of an IAB RFC will be produced after the event.
Participants are required to submit a position paper or an Internet Draft by
15 January 2014.
Upcoming: W3C Workshop on Web Payments: How do you want to pay?
6 December 2013 | Archive
W3C announced a Workshop on Web Payments: How do you want to pay?, 24-25 March 2014, in Paris (France). The event is hosted by the W3C France Office.
This workshop seeks to make it easier to monetize open Web applications, as an effective alternative to proprietary native app ecosystems. In essence, we would like to improve the end user experience and give users greater freedom in how they pay, to reduce the burden on developers and merchants, and to create a level playing field for competing payment solutions providers large and small. We are expecting broad participation from financial institutions, governments, mobile network operators, payment solution providers, technology companies, retailers, content creators, and non-governmental organizations. The workshop will seek to establish a broad roadmap for work on open standards for Web payments, along with proposals for initial small steps along the road. We thank Telefónica and Worldline for agreeing to co-chair the Workshop. W3C membership is not required to participate. The event is open to all. All participants are required to submit a position paper by 8 February 2014.
W3C Highlights, November 2013
27 November 2013 | Archive
Today, W3C published W3C Highlights – November 2013, a survey of select
recent work and upcoming priorities. In this report we examine the forces of Web innovation through the lens of industry,
and how the Open Web Platform is transforming digital publishing, automotive, television, entertainment. This report was prepared
for discussion during TPAC 2013.
Upcoming Workshop: Linking Geospatial Data
27 November 2013 | Archive
W3C announced today a Workshop, Linking Geospatial Data, 5-6 March 2014, in London (UK). The event is hosted by Google.
Many of the best data-driven Web applications have geospatial information at their core. Very often the common factor across multiple data sets is the location data, and maps are crucial in visualizing correlations between data sets that may otherwise be hidden. It’s this desire to work with multiple data sets in different formats about different topics and link those with the powerful technologies used in geospatial information systems that is behind the linking geospatial data workshop.
How can geographic information best be integrated with other data on the Web? How can we discover that different facts in different data sets relate to the same place, especially when ‘place’ can be expressed in different ways and at different levels of granularity? W3C membership is not required to participate. The event is open to all. All participants are required to submit a position paper by 19 January 2014.
