World Wide Web Consortium


World Wide Web Consortium

(World-Wide Web, body)(W3C) The main standards body for theWorld-Wide Web. W3C works with the global community toestablish international standards for client and serverprotocols that enable on-line commerce and communications onthe 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 byMIT LCS and INRIA, in collaboration with CERN where theweb originated. W3C is funded by industrial members but itsproducts are freely available to all. The director is TimBerners-Lee who invented the World-Wide Web at the Centerfor European Particle Research (CERN).

http://w3.org/.