This presentation by Mark Birbeck was given at the Media Futures Conference 2008.

The XHTML Access Attribute is a W3C Working Draft, which provides a single element to be used in documents, to enable generic document accessibility.

The CURIE Syntax 1.0 document is a W3C Working Draft, authored by Shane McCarron of Applied Testing and Technology, Inc., and Mark Birbeck. It provides a way to express URIs in a compact way that is independent of the language in which the compact URI (CURIE) is being used.

The XHTML Modularization 1.1 document is a W3C Working Draft, which provides a set of modules that represent the entire XHTML language, but which can be combined and reused to create new languages. It's also possible to build languages that use only a subset of the modules, such as when creating a profile of XHTML for mobile devices.

The XHTML Role Attribute Module is a W3C Working Draft, which provides a single attribute to be used in documents to indicate the purpose an element.

The RDFa Primer is a W3C Working Draft, authored by Ben Adida of Creative Commons, and Mark Birbeck. It provides an introduction to RDFa, with lots of examples.

The Rich Web Application Backplane document is a W3C note, published in July 2006, which looks at the need to provide a common architecture for use across voice, web browsers, widget frameworks, and so on.