International Standards: W3C
by Liam Quin

Table of contents

• International Standards
• Introduction
• About W3C Specifications
• ...that can be implemented
• Building Consensus
• W3C Document Stages
• Gathering Feedback
• Independent Implementation
• Freely Implementable
• Hijacked Working Groups
• The Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• XML Looks Like HTML
• XML Has Been Very Successful
• XML and Web Architecture
• Open Sharing of Structured Information
• The Web is for Everyone
• Ability To Share
• More Users, More Benefits
• The Web Is For Everyone
• Open Source and XML
• Data rots all by itself
• It's dead, Jim
• Why You Should Care
• Control Your Own Future
• A plea:
• Control Your Own Destiny
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