World Wide Web Consortium
W3C
W3 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).
(http://w3.org/).
(1996-11-03)