KEY SPECIFICATIONS OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB DOCUMENTED IN SECOND ISSUE OF THE
WORLD WIDE WEB JOURNAL

SEBASTOPOL, CA--The second issue of the World Wide Web Journal provides
Webmasters, application programmers, and technical managers with a single
reference that contains the key specifications of the World Wide Web. A
publication of the World Wide Web Consortium, whose members include
software vendors, information publishers, and other organizations
concerned with the development and use of Web technology, the World Wide
Web Journal: Volume 1, Issue 2: Key Specifications of the World Wide Web
describes the core design of the Web's open architecture.

From the very beginning of the Web at CERN, the specifications that
described how the Web works were drafted by Tim Berners-Lee and made
available online. Since then, these documents have been drafted as RFCs
(Request For Comment) to conform with standardization process established
by the group that oversees the development of Internet standards, the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Today, the World Wide Web
Consortium, which is also developing new specifications, maintains the
repository of these documents online. With the publication of this issue
of the World Wide Web Journal, the complete collection of these important
documents is available in print for the first time.

The specifications cover the basic architecture of the WWW, as well as
newly developing features. Its most basic specifications are:

 > HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, defines how content is
   conveyed across the Web (HTTP 1.0 and 1.1).
 > URLs, or Uniform Resource Locators, are the addressing mechanism
   for the Web (Internet RFCs 1630, 1736, 1738, and 1808).
 > HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language, is the lingua franca of the
   Web (HTML 1.0 and 2.0, RFCs 1866 and 1867).

New specifications likely to impact the development of the Web are also
included:

 > PNG, a newly developed graphics format created specifically
   for the Web.
 > PICS, or Platform for Internet Content Selection, creates the
   infrastructure for content rating and labeling services.
 > PEP is an extension mechanism for HTTP intended to allow HTTP
   agents to interoperate with unknown protocol extensions and to
   negotiate protocol extensions.
 > HTML tables has the ability to group table rows into sections,
   plus it can specify cell alignment compactly for sets of cells
   according to context.

The first issue of the World Wide Web Journal, released in January 1996,
contains the proceedings of the Fourth International World Wide Web
Conference, held in December 1995 in Boston, Massachusetts. It includes 57
refereed technical papers, as well as the two best papers from regional
conferences.

WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), led by Tim Berners-Lee, the original
visionary for the Web, spearheads standards research and development for
the Web. Over 100 member organizations participate in the painstaking work
of keeping open access to Web information.

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computer vendors, and technical experts throughout the industry in a
creative collaboration that mirrors the strengths of the "open systems"
philosophy itself.

World Wide Web Journal: Volume 1, Issue 2
Key Specifications of the World Wide Web
A publication of O'Reilly & Associates and
  the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Spring 1996
356 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-190-9, $24.95

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