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  ITU-T A.5 justification information for referenced document HTML 4.01 Specification (1999) in draft X.1141
1. Clear description of the referenced document:
Name: HTML 4.01 Specification (1999)
Title: HTML 4.01 Specification, 24 December 1999
2. Status of approval:
This W3C Recommendation Published in 1999.
3. Justification for the specific reference:
Draft Rec. X.websec-1 uses HTML 4.01 Specification as described in W3C HTML:1999, HTML 4.01 Specification for data representation.
4. Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
No Issues.
5. Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
4.01 supports more multimedia options, scripting languages, style sheets, better printing facilities, and documents that are more accessible to users with disabilities. HTML 4 also takes great strides towards the internationalization of documents, with the goal of making the Web truly World Wide.
6. The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
The document is considered stable and provides a complete description of HTML elements.
7. Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
HTML 4.01 is related to the following: HTML 4. It includes the text, multimedia, and hyperlink features of the previous versions of HTML (HTML 3.2 [HTML32] and HTML 2.0 [RFC1866]). HTML 4 is an SGML application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879 -- Standard Generalized Markup Language ISO 8879.
8. Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
HTML 4.0.1 references the following documents: /
"Cascading Style Sheets, level 1", H. W. Lie and B. Bos, 17 December 1996. Revised 11 January 1999. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-CSS1-19990111 /
"Date and Time Formats", W3C Note, M. Wolf and C. Wicksteed, 15 September 1997. Revised 27 August 1998. This document is http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827 /
"HTML 4.0 Specification", D. Raggett, A. Le Hors, I. Jacobs. The 24 April 1998 version is http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424. The 24 April version included editorial changes from the original 18 December 1997 Revision. /
"Assigned Numbers", STD 2, RFC 1700, USC/ISI, J. Reynolds and J. Postel, October 1994. /
"Codes for the representation of names of languages", ISO 639:1988. For more information, consult http://www.iso.ch/cate/d4766.html. Refer also to http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/iso639a.html. /
"Codes for the representation of names of countries", ISO 3166:1993. /
"Data elements and interchange formats -- Information interchange -- Representation of dates and times", ISO 8601:1988./
"Information Processing -- Text and Office Systems -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)", ISO 8879:1986. Please consult http://www.iso.ch/cate/d16387.html for information about the standard./
"Information Technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) -- Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane", ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. This reference refers to a set of codepoints that may evolve as new characters are assigned to them. This reference therefore includes future amendments as long as they do not change character assignments up to and including the first five amendments to ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. Also, this reference assumes that the character sets defined by ISO 10646 and Unicode remain character-by-character equivalent. This reference also includes future publications of other parts of 10646 (i.e., other than Part 1) that define characters in planes 1-16./
"Information Processing -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets -- Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1", ISO 8859-1:1987./
List of registered content types (MIME types). Download a list of registered content types from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/./
"Hebrew Character Encoding for Internet Messages", H. Nussbacher and Y. Bourvine, December 1993./
"Handling of Bi-directional Texts in MIME", H. Nussbacher, December 1993./
"Uniform Resource Locators", T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, and M. McCahill, December 1994./
"Tags for the Identification of Languages", H. Alvestrand, March 1995. RFC1766 is expected to be updated by http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-alvestrand-lang-tags-v2-00.txt, currently a work in progress./
"Relative Uniform Resource Locators", R. Fielding, June 1995./
"Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", N. Freed and N. Borenstein, November 1996. Note that this RFC obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, and RFC1590./
"Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", N. Freed and N. Borenstein, November 1996. Note that this RFC obsoletes RFC1521, RFC1522, and RFC1590./
"Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", S. Bradner, March 1997./
"URN Syntax", R. Moats, May 1997./
"UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646", F. Yergeau, January 1998. This RFC obsoletes RFC 2044./
"Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk Nielsen, L. Masinter, P. Leach and T. Berners-Lee, June 1999. This RFC obsoletes RFC 2068./
"A Standard Default color Space for the Internet", version 1.10, M. Stokes, M. Anderson, S. Chandrasekar, and R. Motta, 5 November 1996. This document is http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB/
The Unicode Consortium. "The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0", Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 2000. ISBN 0-201-61633-5. Refer also to http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/./
"Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter, August 1998. Note that RFC 2396 updates [RFC1738] and [RFC1808]./
"Final text of revised TC2 to ISO 8879:1986", C. F. Goldfarb, ed., 6 December 1998. /
9. Qualification of W3C:
W3C is qualified for including references in ITU-T Recommendations under Recommendation A.5 procedures.
10. Other (for any supplementary information):
All standards are available on-line. An index of Recommendation and their status may be found in the W3C archives at http://www.w3.org/TR/ .
Note: This form is based on Recommendation ITU-T A.5