Developing The Foundational Standards for Web Services

World Wide Web Consortium

• Founded in 1994 by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee

• Operations (locations)
  • 360 Members (mapping history)
    
  • Based at MIT, ERCIM (France) and Keio University (Japan) + 14 Offices
  • 65 Team members: 90% technical, vendor-neutral staff
  • Funding: Member fees plus government and industry grants

• Method of work
  • Strong, clear Process and royalty-free Patent Policy (Business Case)
  • Consensus, openess, interoperability
  • Liaisons with 40+ other standards bodies
  • Accountable to the global Public

• Work
  • 4 Domains, 20+ Activities, 50+ Groups (org chart )
  • 80+ Web Standards (list / SVG), from HTML and XML to Web Services and Semantic Web

See W3C's home page (http://www.w3.org/), Prospectus , and Flyer: US, A4.

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