| 28th May 2007 |
POWDER Use Cases and Requirements Published
The W3C Protocol for Web Descriptions (POWDER) Working Group, chaired by
FOSI's CTO Phil Archer, has published its Use Cases and Requirements document. This sets out the problem that
POWDER will solve in a non-technical manner and covers areas such as the automatic authentication of trust marks,
adding semantics to user-generated tags, personalization and, of course, child protection. The term 'trust mark' means
different things to different people. It may be a seal of approval granted by an education authority; it may be
a claim of adherence to published standards such as mobileOK or it may be recognition that a particular website meets defined
quality criteria. POWDER is designed to encompass all these use cases and more.
The document is open to public consultation until July 8th 2007. The Working Group is keen to hear whether there are use
cases not covered in the document or whether new features should be added.
To coincide with the publication of the Use Cases and Requirements, FOSI has also published a paper, again, non-technical, outlining
how it sees the future of ICRA labelling using POWDER.
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