xmlhack: Editors' Newswire for 5 November, 2002

A collected summary of items that ran on the xmlhack newswire on 5 November, 2002.

Tunneling protocol for BEEP
from Simon St.Laurent at 21:17, 5 Nov

"This memo describes a BEEP profile that allows a BEEP peer to serve as an application-layer proxy. It allows authorized users to access services through a firewall."

Mr. Berners-Lee speaks on the wireless
from Edd Dumbill at 10:57, 5 Nov

U.S. NPR show "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" hosts a TimBL call-in. Topics range over inventions, the Semantic Web, privacy, patents, broadband, openness, trust and spam.

Jabber gets an IETF Working Group
from Edd Dumbill at 10:49, 5 Nov

The Internet Engineering Steering Group approved the formation of an XMPP -- Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol -- Working Group within the Internet Engineering Task Force.

W3C SVG page revised
from Edd Dumbill at 10:14, 5 Nov

Dean Jackson and Chris Lilley have updated the W3C's SVG home page