"NITF uses the eXtensible Markup Language to define the content and structure of news articles."

"This document defines an interface definition language, Web IDL, that can be used to describe interfaces that are intended to be implemented in web browsers. Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of features that allow the behavior of common script objects in the web platform to be specified more readily. How interfaces described with Web IDL correspond to constructs within ECMAScript and Java execution environments is also detailed."

This approximates the types of standards I think a certain vocal group of folks are interested in making.

"So if a new language feature L needs changes in a set of chapters S, the complexity of L is [image_resource] where degree(S) is the number of cross-references between chapters necessary to fully describe L. An approximation of this factor is P(S,2) - note a permutation not a choice because a forward reference and a backward reference each add complexity."

"Murray Maloney hosted a lunch BOF around the theme of W3C's HTML5 work, tooling and community. These are my notes from the discussion when I asked Ian Hickson what would help make his HTML5-editing life easier; photo by TimBL."

"This document illustrates how to write HTML 5 documents, focussing on simplicity and practical applications for beginners while also providing in depth information for more advanced web developers"

"OMTP is an operator-sponsored forum that serves the needs of each and every link in the mobile phone value chain by gathering and driving mobile terminal requirements"

"The goal of this document is to help W3C editors write better specifications, by making a specification easier to interpret without ambiguity and clearer as to what is required in order to conform."

It is believed that no known web browsers implement this... <sarcasm>can't imagine why</sarcasm>. This an example of an underspecifed feature - pay attention to the language used as to whether you should rename or replace elements & attributes.

Summary of "cool" and "uncool" ideas in both specs. Don't wholly agree with either category of analysis but I have funny feeling this document will be referenced a lot in the early stages of the HTML WG.