CC/PP Requirements and Architecture Working Draft Published

The CC/PP Working Group has published a Working Draft of the
Requirements and Architecture document.  Feedback is welcome:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CCPP-ra/

1.1 Overview
The goal of the CC/PP framework is to specify how client devices
express their capabilities and preferences (the user agent profile)
to the server that originates content (the origin server). The origin
server uses the "user agent profile" to produce and deliver content
appropriate to the client device. In addition to computer-based
client devices, particular attention is being paid to other kinds
of devices such as mobile phones.

1.2 Executive summary of requirements.
The requirements on the framework emphasize three aspects: Flexibility,
extensibility, and distribution. The framework must be flexible, since
we can not today predict all the different types of devices that will
be used in the future, or the ways those devices will be used. It must
be extensible for the same reasons: It should not be hard to add and
test new descriptions. And it must be distributed, since relying on a
central registry might make it inflexible. 

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