Fourth International World Wide Web Conference: Thursday Program

Thursday, December 14

URI Panel: Chair: Stuart Weibel, OCLC Office of Research, William Arms, CNRI, Ron Daniel, LANL, Dan LaLiberte, NCSA, Larry Masinter, Xerox PARC, Keith Moore, University of Tennesee, Michael Mealling, Georgia Institute of Technology, Karen Sollins, M.I.T.
HTML 3.0: Dave Raggett, W3C and Hewlett Packard

SGML on the Web: Steve deRose, Electronic Book Technologies, and Yuri Rubinsky, SoftQuad, Inc. This session will include an overview of the different requirements for putting up SGML on the Web and a detailed technical description of the proposal for a new MIME-type to enable the new capabilities.
HTTP-NG (Jim's Talk): Simon Spero, EIT, and Jim Gettys, W3C and Digital Equipment Corporation
Portable Network Graphics (PNG): Chris Lilley, MAN-T&EC and University of Manchester

Development Tool Requirements on the Web Infrastructure: Chair: Jim Gettys, W3C/Digital, Dave Long, Navisoft, Thomas Reardon, Microsoft, Tad Coburn, Vermeer Technologies, Ed Burns, Silicon Graphics
See also: WWW4 Breakout Session on Authoring Tools
Panel on World Wide Web Security: Allan Schiffman, Terisa Systems, was scheduled to give a talk on the Security working group status; Allan is sick with the Flu and will be unable to give this talk. Phill Hallam-Baker will chair a panel to discuss current developments in Web Security. There will be panelists from the W3C, industry, and cryptographic communities.
Client Library Panel: Chair: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, W3C: "W3C Reference Library 4.0" Roy Fielding, U.C. Irvine, Guido Van Rossum, CNRI, Gisle Aas, Schibsted Nett AS, Perl Library Arthur van Hoff, Sun Microsystems, Java Library

Style Sheets

Håkon Lie, W3C

Micropayments Panel

Chair: Phill Hallam-Baker, W3C, Mark Manasse, Digital Equipment Corporation, talked about the Millicent system, and Ron Rivest, M.I.T., discussed PayWord and Micromint.