Web Services Policy Primer and Guidelines for Authors: Working Drafts
2007-08-10: The Web Services Policy Working Group released two updated Working Drafts. The Primer introduces the policy language and policy attachment mechanisms. The Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors provide best practices for creating policy assertions. Both are companions to the Web Services Policy 1.5 Framework and Attachment specifications.

This is the pilot post of World Wide Web Consortium updates.

The W3C makes the rules and standards that all good little web designers adhere to as best they can. I will be posting articles and links about news at the W3C weekly for you here to keep you up-to-date.

Here is the process to their structural implementations:

• A recommendation is made for standardizing some new technology that is becoming popular on the Web.
• Workshops begin to work on how to standardize the technology, and they come out with reports when they get close to a final set of rules about that technology and how, where, and what about it can be implemented into web pages. If you want to stay very up-to-date about the standards of HTML, SML, Mobile Web, Programs on the Web, and anything else that can have a standard structure that we all adhere to you need to follow what these people are up to.
• Once they are done they submit the final document of rules and standards to a vote.  three answers are permitted; Yes, Yes with revisions, and NO.
• Once the vote is Yes or Yes with revisions the document becomes public and you and I can go look at it and try our best to implement the things they recommend in our own web pages or those we create for others.

So, for the first post I will give you all the URL to the validation program on their web site:  http://validator.w3c.org/

This is a tool used to scan your web pages to see if they comply with HTML 4.01 standards. They have just recently come out with a new version which will actually help you correct or clean up your HTML to make it comply and point out other errors in your markup.

Why do we want to do this? Because the search engines work together with the W3C to help standardize all technologies on the web, and it is part of good SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to comply with the rules as the search engines are forced to adhere to these same rules. Also, it promotes cross-browser compatibility for your site as browser companies such as Internet Explorer and FireFox are also forced to adhere to these rules as well.