W3C Technical Reports & Publications

Technical Reports

W3C is chartered to work with its Members to develop technical specifications. Specifications which are given the status of W3C Recommendation, indicating that a general consensus has been reached among Members that the specification is appropriate for use, goes through three stages. The first stage is development of a specification, where the specification is called a Working Draft, or WD. The W3C Director may then promote a working draft to the next stage by issuing it as a Proposed Recommendation, or PR. After the PR has gone through a formal review process by the Members, the W3C Director will determine that the PR:

• will move to the third and final stage, and be issued as a W3C Recommendation; or
• will be issued with minor indicated changes; or
• will be returned for work at the Working Draft stage to address specific issues; or
• will be abandoned and removed from the W3C agenda.

W3C Proposed Recommendations

The following Proposed Recommendations are under review by W3C Members:

Rating Services and Rating Systems (and Their Machine Readable Descriptions)

5 May 1996, Jim Miller, Paul Resnick and David Singer

PICS Label Distribution -- Label Syntax and Communication Protocols

5 May 1996, Tim Krauskopf, Jim Miller, Paul Resnick and Win Treese

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification

1 July 1996,

W3C Working Drafts

These are working drafts for review by W3C members and other interested parties. These are draft documents and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C working drafts as reference material or to cite them as other than "work in progress".

Note: since working drafts are subject to frequent change, you are advised to reference the URL for this page, rather than the URL for working drafts themselves.

Cascading Style Sheets, level 1

11 September 1996, Håkon W. Lie and Bert Bos

HTML 3.2 Reference Specification.

9 September 1996, Dave Raggett

PEP: An Extension Mechanism for HTTP.

19 August 1996, Rohit Khare

HTML3 and Style Sheets.

5 June 1996, Bert Bos, David Raggett and Håkon W Lie

Inserting objects into HTML.

22 April 1996, Dave Raggett, Charlie Kindel, Lou Montulli, Eric Sink, Wayne Gramlich, Jonathan Hirschman, Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly

The HTML3 Table Model.

23 January 1996, Dave Raggett

W3C Notes

The Consortium may make available on the web information, ideas or commentary from W3C staff, members, or the general public. Such information may be released, at the discretion of the W3C Director, as a NOTE.

Resource Description Messages (RDM)

24 July 1996, Darren Hardy

Frame-based layout via Style Sheets.

8 June 1996, Bert Bos, David Raggett and Håkon W. Lie

Jigsaw: An Object Oriented Server

7 June 1996, Anselm Baird Smith

Jigsaw performance evaluation

7 June 1996, Anselm Baird Smith

HTML predefined icon-like symbols.

4 June 1996, Bert Bos

A Proposed Convention for Embedding Metadata in HTML.

2 June 1996, Reported by Stuart Weibel

The ILU Requester: Object Services in HTTP Servers

7 March 1996, Paul Everitt

HTML Dialects: Internet Medial and SGML Document Types

6 March 1996, Dan Connolly

Session Identification URI.

21 February 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, Dan Connolly

Notification for Proxy Caches

21 February 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker

Extended Log File Format.

21 February 1996, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker, Brian Behlendorf

A Lexical Analyzer for HTML and Basic SGML.

8 February 1996, Dan Connolly

Micro Payment Transfer Protocol (MPTP).

22 November 1995, Phillip M. Hallam-Baker

Giving Information About Other Resources in HTML

20 November 1995, Tim Berners-Lee, David Raggett

Proposals for Gathering Consumer Demographics

06 November 1995, Dan Connolly

"Character Set" Considered Harmful

02 May 1995, Dan Connolly

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