WWW: Beyond the Basics

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:
Finally, we will move on to the conclusion.


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