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W3C holds the Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web on 9-10 March in Tokyo, Japan. The Ubiquitous Web "takes advantage of the diversity of networked devices," said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon). Attendees will examine technologies and help W3C make choices for standardization to realize the vision of distributed applications that adapt to users' needs, device capabilities and environmental conditions. Position papers are due 10 February.

© W3C: Dave Raggett, Yasuyuki Hirakawa

The Voice Browser Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction 1.0. SCXML is an execution environment based on UML Harel State Tables and CCXML. SCXML is a candidate for the control language within VoiceXML 3.0, CCXML 2.0, and the authoring language under development by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group.

© W3C: Jim Barnett, RJ Auburn, Michael Bodell, Marc Helbing, Rafah Hosn, Klaus Reifenrath

As part of the European IST Programme's WS2 project, the seminar Using Web Services - From Infrastructure to Semantics will be held in Paris, France on 6 March. W3C Members Amadeus, Canon, France Telecom, Nokia and W3C technical staff will demonstrate the use of Web services technologies in real world scenarios. The seminar is free and open to the public.

© W3C: MIT, ERCIM, Keio

W3C announces that the XML Key Management (XKMS) Working Group has successfully completed its work: the W3C Recommendation XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) and its companion Bindings and Requirements as well as the Working Group Notes Using XKMS with PGP and A WSDL 1.1 description for XKMS. With XKMS, users can share public key identity across applications, systems and trust boundaries.

© W3C: Phillip Hallam-Baker, Shivaram H. Mysore

The XML Schema Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes. XML schemas define shared markup vocabularies, the structure of XML documents which use those vocabularies, and provide hooks to associate semantics with them. With XML Schema Part 2, datatypes may be defined for use in XML schemas as well as other contexts.

© W3C: David Peterson, Paul V. Biron, Ashok Malhotra, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

Position papers are due 25 January for the W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication to be held 15-16 March 2006, hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY, USA. Attendees will identify steps W3C can take to improve the Web's trustworthiness and security for users. Topics include site authentication, safe Web client behavior, communication with users, infrastructures for content providers, and user agent testing.

© W3C: Thomas Roessler

W3C announces the advancement of the Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 language to Candidate Recommendation. The specification describes ECMAScript-based annotations to grammar rules for extracting meaning from speech recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Comments are welcome through 20 February.

© W3C: Luc Van Tichelen, Dave Burke

The Semantic Web Conference 2006 will be held at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan on 27 January 2006, organized by INTAP. Keio University holds an exhibition booth, Nobuo Saito gives a welcome message, and Tatsuya Hagino presents "Past and Future of the Semantic Web" and moderates a panel discussion on "Semantic Web, the Past, Today and Tomorrow."

© W3C: Keio Research Institute, INTAP

W3C announces the advancement of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 specifications to Candidate Recommendations: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Core Language and Part 2: Adjuncts. Comments are welcome through 15 March. SOAP 1.1 Binding is an updated Working Draft. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications.

© W3C: Hugo Haas

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices.

© W3C: Jo Rabin, Charles McCathieNevile