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What (who) is World Wide Web Consortium - definition

MAIN INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB
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<World-Wide Web, body> (W3C) The main standards body for the World-Wide Web. W3C works with the global community to establish international standards for client and server protocols that enable on-line commerce and communications on the Internet. It also produces reference software. W3C was created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on 25 October 1994. {Netscape Communications Corporation} was a founding member. The Consortium is run by MIT LCS and INRIA, in collaboration with CERN where the web originated. W3C is funded by industrial members but its products are freely available to all. The director is Tim Berners-Lee who invented the World-Wide Web at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN). http://w3.org/. (1996-11-03)
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World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. As of 5 March 2023, W3C had 462 members. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

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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.