Permament URL: https://www.w3.org/2013/dd-dubai.html
"The social value of the Web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability."
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and Inventor of the World Wide Web.
Not just a technical problem.
A lot of debates nowadays for a common definition of Open Standards.
W3C recently endorsed with fellow SDOs IEEE and IETF the Open Stand definition, aka The Modern Paradigm for Standards:
"If we can produce everything I can imagine, we will have failed. The idea is to produce everything other people can imagine"
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an International Consortium where Member and External organizations, a full-time technical staff, and the public work together to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing Web standards such as protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.
And new in 2013: a W3C host in China, at Beijang University.
Based on a transparent and public Process compatible with WTO standard guidelines.
What most people talk about:
To do: Video Streaming (adaptive and live), P2P, TV remote, DLNA, TV channels, Speech, 3D, Access control, Security, Privacy, DRM, micropayment, Data and query server discovery, service description, Federated query server, Trust, Provenance, Read-write Web, Education materials, Certification (software and developers), Authoring tools support, Multilingual support..
The real thing.. (old, but representative of the real complexity/inter-dependencies)
Substantive work in areas with the particular objective of enabling Universal Access to the Web.
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"Tim, why did you choose www
for the Web
in 1989 ?"
"I googled it and it wasn't taken"