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               <h1 class="title">Internationalization of Web of Services</h1>
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      <p id="w3c_toggle_include" class="default_open intro tPadding">This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
     For related introductory information, see: <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n">Internationalization</a>.</p>
      <h2 id="completed">Completed Work</h2>
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         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
	been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
	W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
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	Track</a>.</p>
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         <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
	have the same level of W3C endorsement.</p>
      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/timezone" title="Working with Time Zones publication history">2011-07-05</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-timezone-20110705/">Working with Time Zones</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>
This document contains guidelines and best 
practices for working with time and time zones in applications and 
document formats.
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                     <a href="../history/leiri" title="Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification publication history">2008-11-03</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-leiri-20081103/">Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=leiri">translations</a>
                     </p>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>For historic reasons, some formats have allowed variants of IRIs that are somewhat less restricted in syntax, for example XML system identifiers and W3C XML Schema anyURIs. This document provides a definition and a name (Legacy Extended IRI or LEIRI) for these variants for easy reference. 
			 
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                     <a href="../history/ws-i18n-scenarios" title="Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios publication history">2004-07-30</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-i18n-scenarios-20040730/">Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Describes internationalization usage
                        patterns and scenarios for Web services.
                        Provides additional guidance for
                        implementers of Web service technologies,
                        suggesting methods for dealing with general
                        international interoperability issues in
                        services and service descriptions. Provides
                        a template for Web service designers to
                        implement international capabilities in
                        their services.</p>
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      <h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
      <p>Below are draft documents:
      <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
      Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
      process</a>. Others may be published as Group Notes or
      become obsolete specifications.</p>
      <h3 id="wd">Other Working Drafts</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/ws-i18n" title="Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N) publication history">2008-04-15</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-ws-i18n-20080415/">Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N)</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Describes enhancements to SOAP messaging
                        to provide internationalized and localized
                        operations using locale and international
                        preferences. These mechanisms can be used
                        to accommodate a wide variety of
                        development models for international
                        usage.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/ltli" title="Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web publication history">2006-06-12</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ltli-20060612/">Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
	Describes mechanisms based on BCP 47 for identifying or selecting the language of content or locale preferences used to process information using Web technologies. 
			 
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	                    <h2>Resources Developed Outside W3C</h2>
	    
	                    <p>The following resources are relevant to this area of
	    work.</p>
	    
	                    <h3>Internationalized Resource Identifiers (RFC
	    3987)</h3>
	    
	                    <p>
                        <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt">RFC
	    3987: Internationalization Resource Identifiers</a>
	    defines a new protocol element, the Internationalized
	    Resource Identifier (IRI), as a complement to the Uniform
	    Resource Identifier (URI).</p>

	                    <h3>Internet-Draft: BCP 47 (RFC 4646 and RFC 4647)</h3>
	    
	                    <p>
                        <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt">IETF Best Current Practice 47</a> describes language tags and language tag matching for cases where it is desirable to indicate the language used in an information object. Comprises two IETF RFCs: RFC 4646 Tags for Identifying Languages and RFC 4647 Matching of Language Tags. The two editors of this best practice participate in the Internationalization Working Group. </p>

	                    <h3>Date and Time Formats</h3>
	    
	                    <p>
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827">Date and Time Formats</a> is a W3C Member Submission that defines a profile of ISO 8601, the International Standard for the representation of dates and times, likely to satisfy most requirements.</p>
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                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/Query?note=NOTE-datetime-19980827">translations</a>
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