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The Diffuse Project Home Page

Thank you for using this service. The Diffuse project, which built on one of the first online services launched by the European Commission in 1995, concluded on 31st January 2003. No decision regarding maintenance of the contents on this website has yet been made.

Man-Sze Li, Marja-Leena Vepsäläinen, Martin Bryan, The Diffuse Project, January 2003

What’s New in Diffuse?	Details of the changes made to the Diffuse website during the latest monthly update. Join our mailing list to receive monthly notification of reports published and changes made to the web site.
What is Diffuse?	Information on how to use the Diffuse service.
Diffuse Conference	Annual conferences on how standardization affects, and is affected by, Information Society Research and Technology Development. Diffuse Final Conference, Convergence of Web Services, Grid Services and the Semantic Web for delivering e-Services? 12th December 2002, Brussels. Opening Keynote Address by Commissioner Erkki Liikanen, European Commission.
Diffuse Business Guides	Guides to the application of standards and specifications in specific areas.
Diffuse Standards and Specifications List	Comprehensive listing of application-specific and general-purpose standards and specifications commonly used to exchange information in electronic form.
Diffuse Fora List	Concise listing of formal standards bodies and industry consortia developing standards and specifications in electronic commerce, information management and related fields.
Diffuse RTD Project List	Overview of European Information Society RTD projects that use, or influence the development of, listed standards and specifications.
Diffuse News	Monthly reports on standards and specifications developments in electronic commerce Monthly reports on standards and specifications developments in information management Quarterly reports on the implementation of standards and specifications by Information Society RTD projects Occasional conference reports relating to the development of standards and specifications in the domain of Diffuse.
User Support	Alphabetical Index to standards and specifications covered in the Diffuse publications Searching the contents of the Diffuse website Help Desk for Diffuse users User Satisfaction Survey.

The Diffuse Project is funded under the European Commission's Information Society Technologies programme. Diffuse publications are maintained by TIEKE (the Finnish Information Society Development Centre), IC Focus and The SGML Centre.