World Wide Web Consortium
<World-Wide Web, body> (W3C) The main standards body for the
World-Wide Web.
W3C works with the global community to establish international standards for
client and
server protocols that enable on-line commerce and communications on the
Internet.
It also produces reference software.
W3C was created by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on 25 October 1994.
Netscape Communications Corporation was a founding member.
The Consortium is run by MIT LCS and
INRIA, in collaboration with
CERN where the web originated.
W3C is funded by industrial members but its products are freely available to all.
The director is Tim Berners-Lee who invented the
World-Wide Web at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN).
Home (http://www.w3.org/).
