World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C)
- International, vendor-neutral consortium
- 520+ Member organizations
- Develops technical standards for the Web
- evolution, interoperability, universality of the
Web
- Hosted by INRIA (France), MIT, Keio University (Japan)
- Five "domains":
- Architecture - (XML, etc.)
- Document Formats - (HTML, graphics, style, internationalization,
etc.)
- Interaction Domain - (device interaction, voice, multimedia)
- Technology and Society (privacy, semantic Web, etc.)
- Web Accessibility
Initiative