New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
College of Computing Sciences (CCS)
CIS485-451/ CIS 786-851: World Wide Web Standards, Fall 2001
Professor: Michael Bieber

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Schedule

Version 5.13 - 11/23/01

Notes:

• This schedule will change frequently. Please be sure to check the Web for the latest version. You will be responsible for items listed on the current schedule!
• All readings posted on this Web site and listed here are expressly for educational use within CIS485 and CIS786 at NJIT for Fall 2001. They should not be accessed for any other purpose.
• Note that we had a major restructuring, so the dates in the first part of the semester may not match those in the last part.

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Weekly Schedule of WebBoard Postings

This summarizes the weekly deadlines in the Discussion assignment.

• by Thursday: Standard Topics Presentation
• by Thursday: Specific Standards Presentations
• by Monday: Comments
• by Thursday: Replies and Follow-ups (please don't wait until Thursday!)

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Week by Week

9/5 - 9/18 Topic: Standards Introduction

Topic Presentation Readings:

• topic presentation on WebBoard (also posted on the course Web site)
• Graham Bird (1998). The Business Benefit of Standards. StandardView 6(2), pages 76-80.
• Ken Krechmer (1996). Technical Standards: Foundations of the Future. StandardView 4(1), pages 4-8.

Homework (by Saturday 9/8):

• get a WebBoard account for WWW Standards;
• biological sketch;
• choose standard topic teams
• choose first specific standard teams (standards to be posted by 9/6)

Homework (by Saturday 9/8 and Monday 9/11):

• discussion on this week's standards topic
• download the first discussion record form and begin keeping records on it.

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9/19 - 9/25 Topic: A Look at Some Standards

Topic Reading:

• Brian Meek (1996). Too Soon, Too Late, Too Narrow, Too Wide, Too Shallow, Too Deep. StandardView 4(2), pages 114-118.
• W3C Recommendation Track (section 5.2)

Standards:

• Extended Markup Language (XML) - Brian Chen, Nazan Koseoglu and Victor Mui
• Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) - Hesha Patel and Malay Patel
• Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) - Glenn Pozo and Dinah Thomas
• JAVA -Baljinder Singh and Binita Patel
• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) -Conrad McLean and Sam Youssef

Homework: discussion on this week's topic and standards

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9/26 - 10/2 Topic: The Standards Process

Topic Team: Venkata Modugula
Topic Readings:

• topic presentation on WebBoard
• W3C Standards Process

Standards:

• XML Namespaces- Prital Patel and Niral Patel
• XML Schema - Claudia Zambrano and Carmina Mevs
• XML Path Language (PATH) - Pinku Patel and Jian Chen
• Uniform Resource Identifier, Locator, Name (URI/URL/URN) - Bhagya Murali and Bela Patel

Homework: choose a standards organization for week of 10/10; discussion on this week's topic and standards

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10/3 - 10/9 Topic: How Companies Influence Standards

Topic Team: Ava-Gale Brooks and Poornima Joshi
Topic Readings:

• topic presentation on WebBoard (and its references):
  • [1].http://www.nwfusion.com/archive/1994/94-12-26the_-j.html
  • [2].http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1005ms2.html
  • [3].http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1005ms.html
  • [4].http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1005ms3.html
  • [5].http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/05/10/standards/index.html
  • [6].http://www.shosteck.com/news/nov00.htm
  • [7].http://www.zdnet.co.uk/itweek/analysis/2001/26/enterprise/xml/

Standards:

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - Stan Labkovsky and James Robertson
• The Extensible Stylesheet Language and Transformations (XSL/XSLT) - Paul Pal and John Sheheta
• Unicode - Rimpu Modhera and Shilpa Kabaria
• Domain Name System (DNS) - Sue Fioravanti and Mateusz Pospieszny
• XHTML - Nikunj Patel and Rakesh Patel

Homework: discussion; choose remaining specific standard teams

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10/11 - 10/18 Topic: Standards Organizations

Topic Team: everyone
Topic Readings: Internal Memo by Dr. Jacob Palme (1995), especially interesting for its contrast of the ISO and IETF organizations

Standards: none

Homework: standards organizations assignment; discussion

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10/18 - 10/25 Topic: How Developers Incorporate Standards

Topic Team: Paul Pal and Ava-Gale Brooks
Topic Readings: none

Standards:

• Document Object Model (DOM)- Ray Gintner and Poornima Joshi
• Wireless Applications Protocol (WAP) - Mike Ferrell and Darpan Shah
• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) - Monik Gandhi, Harish Nallabathula and Lan Ngo

Homework: discussion; individual project proposal (by 10/24); turn in the first discussion record form on 10/25.

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10/25 - 11/1: Free Week to Work on Project (details to be announced)

Homework:

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11/1 - 11/8 Topic: Standards and Legal Issues

Topic Team: Poornima Joshi and Lan Ngo
Topic Readings:

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/encryption/encryption.htm
• http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/3744.html
• http://www.cdt.org/standards/overview.shtml
• http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/

Standards::

• XML Linking Language (XLink) - Tejas Shah and Ava-Gale Brooks
• XML Pointer Language (XPointer) - Venkata Modugula and Nirav Kadakia
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) - Mike Ferrell, James Robertson and Dinah Thomas

Homework: discussion; download the second discussion record form and begin keeping records on it.

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11/8 - 11/15 Topic: Planning for Emerging Standards

Topic Team: Paul Pal and Poornima Joshi
Topic Readings:

• http://www.ansi.org/Public/nss.html
• http://www.techsoup.org/articles.cfm?topicid=11&topic=Technology%20Planning
  (or http://www.techsoup.org/articles.cfm?topicid=11&topic=Technology Planning)
• http://www.cio.com/archive/101501/et_article_content.html

Standards:

• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Guidelines - Nikunj Patel and Rakesh Patel
• Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) - Nazan Koseoglu and Paul Pal
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG) - Poornima Joshi and Victor Mui

Homework: discussion

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11/15 - 11/22 Topic: Standards and the Future Value Chain

Topic Team: Jian Chen and Venkata Modugula
Topic Readings:

• http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/valchn.html
• http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1215/MR1215.appe.pdf
• http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200108/tm_08_29_01a.html

Standards:

• Web Services Description Language (WSDL) - Jian Chen, Binita Patel and Pinku Patel
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) - Venkata Modugula, Bhagya Murali and Tejas Shah
• Darpa Agent Markup Language and OIL (DAML+OIL) - John Shehata, Baljinder Singh and Claudia Zambrano

Homework: discussion

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11/22 - 12/6 Topic: Role of Institutions in Standards

Topic Team: Ava-Gale Brooks and Jian Chen
Topic Readings:

• http://www.sciam.com/0397issue/0397resnick.html
• http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2819047,00.html
• http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098585,00.htm
• http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/standardview/1997-5-1/p3-whitehead/ (on-campus access only; I'll post an accessible copy later)

Standards:

• Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) - Suzanne Fioravanti, Mateusz Pospieszny and Darpan Shah
• Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) - Monik Ghandi, Hesha Patel and Malay Patel
• Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) - Harish Nallabathula, Niral Patel and Prital Patel

Homework: discussion; individual project (12/3)

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12/6 - 12/12 Topic: tba

Topic Team: Jian Chen and Paul Pal
Topic Readings: tba

Extra Organization:

• Java Community Process (JCP) - Bhagya Murali, Bela Patel and Mateusz Pospieszny

Standards:

• Dublin Core - Shilpa Kabaria, Nirav Kadakia and Rimpu Modhera
• Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project - Ava-Gale Brooks, Carmnina Mevs and Sam Youssef
• Open E-Book Specifications - Brian Chen, Stan Labkovsky and Bela Patel

Homework: discussion; turn in the second discussion record form on 12/12.