Examples of use of World Wide Web Consortium
1. So we‘re still working on it," he told a lecture last month at Oxford University (webcast at http://tinyurl.com/mxysy; slides at http://tinyurl.com/rol4x). The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which Berners–Lee directs, has been working on it by producing standards to allow the linking of data, including the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a language for information about the meaning of data.
2. The systems that make it work are organised by technical bodies such as the non–profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the internets domain–name and dot.address systems, the Internet Engineering Task Force and the World Wide Web Consortium.
3. Britain‘s turn to host the gathering of the world‘s foremost webmasters is long overdue, particularly since the event will be headed, as always, by Sir Tim Berners–Lee, a Briton, who is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium and widely recognised as the father of the web.
4. Today, a complicated bureaucracy of groups known by their abbreviations help govern the network÷ the IETF (the Internet Engineering Task Force, which comes up with the technical standards), ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the naming system for Web sites) and the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium, which develops technologies for the Web). But their power is limited and their legal standing murky.