W3C
- International consortium
- Mission: "Lead the Web to its full potential"
- Defines Web standards:
- XML, HTML
- Digital signatures
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Web Services
- XMLP Working Group (for SOAP 1.2)
- Web Services Description Working Group (for WSDL 1.2)
- Choreography Working Group
- Considering work on WS Addressing
- Workshop planned on WS Constraints and Capabilities
- Semantic Web
- Web Ontology Language ("OWL")
- . . . (and many others)