The W3C Web Services Choreography Working Group has posted the first public working draft of Web Services Choreography Description Language Version 1.0. According to the abstract,
The Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) is an XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations of Web Services participants by defining, from a global viewpoint, their common and complementary observable behavior; where ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal.
The Web Services specifications offer a communication bridge between the heterogeneous computational environments used to develop and host applications. The future of E-Business applications requires the ability to perform long-lived, peer-to-peer collaborations between the participating services, within or across the trusted domains of an organization.
The Web Services Choreography specification is targeted for composing interoperable peer-to-peer collaborations between any type of Web Service participant regardless of the supporting platform or programming model used by the implementation of the hosting environment.
The W3C Privacy Activity has posted the second public working draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P1.1) Specification. "P3P 1.1 is based on the P3P 1.0 Recommendation and adds some features using the P3P 1.0 Extension mechanism. It also contains a new binding mechanism that can be used to bind policies for XML Applications beyond HTTP transactions." New features in P3P 1.1 include a mechanism to name and group statements together so user agents can organize the summary display of those policies and a generic means of binding P3P Policies to arbitrary XML to support XForms, WSDL, and opther XML applications.
The W3C Voice Browser Working Group has published the first last call working draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. According to the spec abstract, "CCXML is designed to provide telephony call control support for VoiceXML [VOICEXML] or other dialog systems. CCXML has been designed to complement and integrate with a VoiceXML interpreter. Because of this there are many references to VoiceXML's capabilities and limitations. There are also details on how VoiceXML and CCXML can be integrated. However it should be noted that the two languages are separate and are not required in an implementation of either language. For example CCXML could be integrated with a more traditional Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system and VoiceXML or other dialog systems could be integrated with some other call control systems."
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