Cisco Joins UPnP Forum; Cisco to Incorporate Industry Standards into Home Networking Products.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers CES 2000 SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 29, 1999 Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced its membership in the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Forum, an industry group focused on enabling the emergence of easily connected Internet devices in home networks. This industry group will define specifications that utilize the industry-standard Extensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. ). These specifications will compliment the work being done in the Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the (IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force ) Zero Configuration Working Group by Cisco and other industry leaders. "Cisco is committed to working with others to create open standards for emerging markets such as Internet appliances. Open standards will enable easy connection for consumer products to broadband Internet services," said Don Listwin, Cisco Executive Vice President. More information on Cisco's Home Networking plans will be made available during The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 6-9, 2000. More information about the UPnP Forum can be found at http://www.upnp.org More information about the IETF Zero Configuration Working Group can be found at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/zeroconf-charter.html About Cisco Systems Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco news and information are available at http://www.cisco.com. Cisco, Cisco IOS, Cisco Systems, the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners. |
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