This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
For related introductory information, see: Architecture Principles.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Standards
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2004-12-15
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The World Wide Web uses relatively
simple technologies with sufficient scalability, efficiency and
utility that they have resulted in a remarkable information space
of interrelated resources, growing across languages, cultures, and
media. In an effort to preserve these properties of the information
space as the technologies evolve, this architecture document
discusses the core design components of the Web. They are
identification of resources, representation of resource state, and
the protocols that support the interaction between agents and
resources in the space. We relate core design components,
constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties
they support.
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Group Notes
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1999-03-19
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This document describes the experiences and results that came
out of the Web Characterization Group as part of the W3C HTTP-NG
Activity, and how that work is now continued in the Web
Characterization Activity.
The HTTP-NG Working Group created a series of scenarios for the
HTTP-NG protocol design group, which were implemented in the scope
of the HTTP-NG testbed, and used to optimize its design.
The WCA started in November 1998, and will bring that work model
to a wider audience.
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Drafts
Below are draft documents:
other Working Drafts.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Other Working Drafts
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2009-04-15
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This is a sample short description for this specification;
over time we will replace this description with a real one.
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Obsolete Specifications
These specifications have either been superseded by others,
or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
purposes, but are not intended to be used.
Retired
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1999-05-24
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This document represents an effort on the part of the W3C Web
Characterization Activity to establish a shared understanding of
key Web concepts. The primary goal in preparing this document was
to develop a common interpretation for terminology related to Web
characterization research. However, it is hoped that the Web
community at large will also benefit from the enumeration and
definition of important Web concepts.
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