Chapter 13 - HTML
13.6 How to get involved in adding to HTML specifications
"We value your opinion, really we do,
but we're going to put a stiff tax on its expression,
so that we won't have to hear it very often."
Proposing New Features
Those who would propose new features or modify old ones should
research available information first.
Ideas will be taken more seriously if they follow
the internet draft guidelines.
Research Links:
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- IETF is the protocol engineering and development arm of
the Internet, open to all interested.
- INTERNET MONTHLY REPORTS
- The purpose of these reports is to communicate to the Internet Research Group.
- INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
-
The IETF is a standards body and the IAB is drawn from the IETF in order to help it achieve its
goals of better standardization.
- HTML World Wide Web Consortium
- The W3C is an industry consortium which seeks to promote standards for the evolution of the
Web and interoperability between WWW products by producing specifications and reference
software. Although W3C is funded by industrial members, it is vendor-neutral, and its products
are freely available to all.
- W3C hosts several
Email lists
- www-announce (WWW announcements of general interest);
www-talk
(Technical discussions of WWW issues);
www-html
(Discussions of proposed future enhancements to HTML); Web4lib
(Delivery of Library services via WWW)
-
W3 Consortium information on HTML
- HyperMail archive of the HTML-WG mail server
People:
- HTML Working Group Co-chair
- Editor of the HTML 2.n Specification:
- Editor of the 3.n Specification
Finally, we will move on to the conclusion.
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