Cooperation

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Cooperation Competitionin building the
Web, the universe of network-accessible
information 

• Jean-François Abramatic
• Chief Product Officer ILOG

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Agenda

• Some history context
• Computers, networks, software
• Convergence opportunities
• computing, telecommunications multimedia
  industries
• Development Deployment
• Robust, scalable, adaptive infrastructure
• simplicity in order to achieve universality
• Market requirements
• Industry consortium
• Team, Members, Public
• Public requirements
• Societal impact What does it mean to be
  responsible ?
• Deserving the WW before the W
• Some lessons learned

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Some history context

• Computing cost of resources going down
• Servers, PCs, , mobile devices
• Networking availability of the Internet
  architecture
• Interoperability
• Device independence
• Intelligence at the boundaries
• Culture of cooperation
• Software maturity of environments
• Operating systems languages
• Development environments
• Data representation structure
• Text, graphics, image, sound, video
• Structured documents, HyperText
• Databases

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Development Deployment Rough Consensus
Running Code 

• Leveraging the IETF experience
• HTTP, HTML, URI at IETF
• HTML moves to W3C
• HTTP, URI remain at IETF
• W3C Candidate recommendation
• Checking interoperable implementations
• XML Signature
• Joint Working Group IETF-W3C
• IETF cryptography protocols
• W3C XML

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Market requirements

• Industry early involvement in cooperative
  design
• X Window Consortium experience
• Vendor neutral hosts
• MIT, INRIA/ERCIM, Keio
• Any organization can participate
• Roles
• Team architecture
• Industry market
• Public society
• Rules
• Activity creation
• Recommendation lifecycle
• Results available to all
• Commitment to royalty free implementations

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Societal requirements

• Technology Society
• Content selection PICS
• Privacy P3P
• IPR policy royalty-free commitment
• Web Accessibility Initiative
• Guidelines for Best Practices
• Education Outreach
• Supported by government fundings
• Internationalization

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Lessons learned

• Gathering the relevant Community
• IETF W3C
• XML structured documents databases
• OMA W3C Mobile Web initiative
• Sharing the evolution of the Architecture
• TAG
• Last Call stage
• Moving towards a vision
• From Mosaic to the Semantic Web
• From browsing to authoring
• People leveraging machines

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Where this will all end up is anyones guess, the
only way to find out is to keep going
! Vint Cerf