Speaking of Standards

As the VoiceXML 3.0 specification makes its way toward release, the W3C Voice Browser Working Group announced today the seventh working draft of the VoiceXML 3.0 specification at:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-voicexml30-20100831/

This newest draft listed only these changes:

• Revised Legacy profile description to match current thinking.
• Removed SIV Resource (section 5.4) since it is now covered along with the recognition resource in section 5.3.
• Update section 4.4 (Event Model) to match our current thinking about DOM events as the underlying model for all flow control
• Cleaned up text in sections 1, 2, and 5

Per Voxeo’s Dan Burnett, co-editor-in-chief of the specification, the biggest change is the third bullet about the updates to the event model (section 4.4).

Personally, I’ve found the best way to understand the changes is to view the “diff” of the version from the previous version at:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-voicexml30-20100831/diff.html

Given our interest in VoiceXML and VoiceXML 3, we’ll be continuing to write about it here… you can see related stories at:

http://blogs.voxeo.com/speakingofstandards/category/voicexml/

The SIP Forum today announced that the next SIPit interoperability test event will be held November 15-19, 2010, in Taiwan, Taipei.  A website for the event is now up at:

http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/SIPit27/SIPit27.htm

As I’ve written about in the past and recorded a video interview about, these SIPit events are critical, in my opinion, to helping drive the overall adoption of SIP and open standards in communication systems.

If you are a creator of software or hardware devices that use the SIP protocol, SIPit events are a great way to test how well your equipment works with other SIP implementations. There is a fee, but it’s small for the week-long testing you get to do. More info can be found on the registration page.

P.S. You’ll note that this SIPit event is the week following IETF 79 in Beijing, China… so if you can make the travel work, it’s a great way to combine two weeks of open standards / SIP – related events.

Have you wanted a T-shirt, hat or mug to help promote the IETF and your support of the organization?  Now you can buy one, courtesy of a new online store the Internet Society has opened up:

http://www.cafepress.com/ietf

I think it’s very cool to see because many people who attend IETF meetings have wanted to help promote the great work of the IETF… but haven’t been able to have an easy way to do so like wearing a shirt (except for the shirts they receive at IETF events).

Not being a personal fan of white T-shirts (I have young kids), I naturally wanted to see a black shirt… and while they are not there yet, I’m sure they will be at some point.  It’s from Cafe Press and all created “on-demand”, so the number of items is really only limited by ISOC’s choices as well as their ability to upload appropriate graphics (for example, black shirts do need a special image).

I’m sure they’ll be getting all sorts of feedback in the next few weeks with requests for products.  Kudos to ISOC for setting this up!

 

News came out yesterday that registration is now open for the 79th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to be held November 7-12, 2010, in Beijing, China.  You can find out more and register at:

http://www.ietf.org/meeting/79/

The announcement contains more information and pricing (as does the web site).

Tsinghua University, the host of the meeting, also put together a dedicated website providing more information and including a video promoting Beijing:

http://www.ietf79.cn/

This is a milestone for the IETF in that it is the first IETF meeting to be held in China.