INDUSTRY ORGANIZATIONS
SITES
openNET Coalition
An industry organization dealing with issues of open access to high-speed Internet connectivity.
shop.org - Where Online Retailers Meet
A trade association focusing on Internet retailing, shop.org releases reports on e-tailing trends.
The Internet Society
The Internet Society, a professional organization with members in over 100 countries, works for Internet education and infrastructure standards.
WAP Forum
A site bringing together the major players in the wireless access industry. Includes developer information, event listings, and more.
ARTICLES
Founders of the Web Standards Project Take a Hiatus
The members of the Web Standards Project, having worked fairly successfully to get browser makers to adhere to web standards, plan to refocus next year on influencing web designers and developers. (12/14/2001 at Computer World)
ICANN Carves Out a Compromise
At a Los Angeles meeting, ICANN, NSI, the U.S. Commerce Department, and registrars came to further agreements on NSI's eventual loss of the domain name registry, funding of ICANN, and several other issues. (11/8/1999 at The Industry Standard)
Internet Security Alliance Debuts
The Internet Security Alliance (www.isalliance.org), an industry group dedicated to sharing security information and working against malicious hackers, was launched on April 19, 2001. (4/19/2001 at Excite News)
Med Sites Prescribe Ethics Credo
A group of prominent medical Web sites have formed Hi-Ethics, a partnership aimd at providing a code of ethics for health-oriented Web sites to follow. (11/4/1999 at Wired News)
Net Heavyweights Launch Net Think Tank
Esther Dyson, Vint Cerf, and other Net luminaries are forming a Net think tank to perform research and projections without hype. (11/9/1999 at ZDNet)
Royalty-Free Patent Policy
The W3C has released new draft of its patent policy; this one emphasizes getting W3C members to comply with the policy, and states a strong preference for royalty-free technical recommendations. (2/26/2002 at xmlhack)
Self-Indulgence in the Internet Industry
Denise Caruso thinks that until pressure from government or consumers mounts, the online industry's transgressions will continue. (11/22/1999 at The New York Times)
Some I.B.M. Software Tools to Be Put in Public Domain
IBM is donating software it spent $40 million creating to a new foundation, named Eclipse, which will be an open-source developers' organization. (11/5/2001 at The New York Times)
Standards Body Pushes Accessibility Online
The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the candidate recommendation for its User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 as part of its Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (9/17/2001 at News.com)
W3C Extends Comment Period on Patent Policy
The W3C has extended the comment period on its proposed RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory) patent licensing proposal until October 11th, after complaints that the proposal did not receive enough publicity or debate. (10/2/2001 at InternetNews.com)
W3C Patent Plan Draws Protests
The W3C's plan to become more accomodating when it comes to including patented methods in their web standards recommendations has drawn a firestorm of controversy after some last-minute publicity. (10/1/2001 at News.com)
W3C Patent Policy Framework
The World-Wide Web Consortium's proposed policy on dealing with members' patents when those patents overlap W3C standards would allow corporations to charge for use of W3C standards. (8/16/2001 at The World Wide Web Consortium)
W3C Rejects Patents on Net Tech
The W3C's Patent Policy Working Group has voted, 12-7, to adopt a royalty-free patent system for the standards it works on; it won't declare standards based on technologies that patent-holders might charge for. (11/15/2002 at Wired News)
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