CC/PP stands for Composite Capabilities/Preferences Profile, and is a system for expressing device capabilities and user preferences. With CC/PP, a user with a specific preference, or disability-related need can clarify that even though their browser handles millions of colours, they personally can only distinguish certain colours. Or, perhaps the user navigates exclusively with a keyboard or stylus.
Why do we need CC/PP?
With the growing popularity of ubiquitous Web devices spread across such a broad range of media and bandwidth, authoring for the
The future is more likely to see the cooperation between existing methods and languages such as SMIL’s switch and CSS media queries as well as with emerging methods and languages. All of these refined and orchestrated through the use of CC/PP profiles and preferences.
The work on a device independent Web is not over yet. The protocols defining how profiles are exchanged, requested, or deduced by and between Web servers, proxies and agents are yet to be fully standardized, and so are the mechanisms regulating selection and transformation of content
WS-Security describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide quality of protection through message integrity, message confidentiality, and single message authentication. These mechanisms can be used to accommodate a wide variety of security models and encryption technologies.
The Web Services Security specification (WS-Security) provides a set of mechanisms to help developers of Web Services secure SOAP message exchanges. Specifically, WS-Security describes enhancements to the existing SOAP messaging to provide quality of protection through the
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