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{{CompanyInfo| | {{CompanyInfo|| logo = W3Clogo.png | ||
| logo = W3Clogo.png | | type =SDO | ||
| type = | | industry =Web Technologies | ||
| industry = | | founded = 1994 | ||
| founded = | |||
| founder(s) = [[Tim Berners-Lee]] | | founder(s) = [[Tim Berners-Lee]] | ||
| purchase = | | purchase =Non for profit | ||
| ownership = | | ownership =Nobody | ||
| headquarters =32 Vassar Street<br>Room 32-G515<br>Cambridge, MA 02139 | | headquarters =32 Vassar Street<br>Room 32-G515<br>Cambridge, MA 02139 | ||
| country = USA | | country = USA, EU, JP, CH | ||
| products = | | products =Web Standards and Tools | ||
| employees = | | employees =<100 | ||
| revenue = | | revenue =~10M$ = expenses | ||
| businesses = | | businesses =Web standardization | ||
| website = [http://www.w3.org/ | | website = [http://www.w3.org/ w3.org] | ||
| keypeople =[[Jeffrey Jaffe]], CEO | | keypeople =[[Jeffrey Jaffe]], CEO | ||
| twitter = | [[Daniel Dardialler]], Head of Liaisons | ||
Coralie Mercier, Head of Communications | |||
| twitter =@w3c | |||
}} | }} | ||
Revision as of 09:57, 12 February 2016
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| Type: | SDO |
| Industry: | Web Technologies |
| Founded: | 1994 |
| Ownership: | Nobody |
| Headquarters: | 32 Vassar Street Room 32-G515 Cambridge, MA 02139 |
| Country: | USA, EU, JP, CH |
| Businesses: | Web standardization |
| Products: | Web Standards and Tools |
| Employees: | <100 |
| Revenue: | ~10M$ = expenses |
| Website: | w3.org |
| Twitter: |  @@w3c
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| Key People | |
| Jeffrey Jaffe, CEO
Daniel Dardialler, Head of Liaisons Coralie Mercier, Head of Communications | |
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where web standards are developed by a hired staff that works together with member organizations and the public. [1]
Overview[edit | edit source]
The W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee. Its mission is to develop protocol and guidelines for the long-term growth of the WWW, in order to bring out its fullest potential. The W3C facilitates participation, involvement, sharing knowledge, and building trust at a global level. It enjoys the support of many important industries and organizations.
W3C Standards[edit | edit source]
W3C laid the foundations for the WWW with the development of HTML in 1997 and XML in 1998.[2]
Since the creation of W3C it has developed more than 90 standards, which they refer to as "Recommendations." Each of these recommendations must pass through a set of stages which is known as the '"Recommendation Track" which involves: review, reformulation, and finally implementation.[3]
Each recommendation was developed by working groups which consist of up to 15 W3C members who have experience in the applicable field.
A recommendation is steered by a Working Group, and must pass through the following steps (also called maturity levels):
- Working Drafts, which are fluid works-in-progress published by Working Groups to gain input from the wider community.
- Last Call for Working Draft, which notifies interested parties of the WG's intent to move the draft onto the next stage. It is a last call for external input.
- Call for Implementation. At this point, the Working Draft becomes a Candidate for Recommendation, and is reviewed for implementation as a standard.
- Call for review of proposed recommendation. At this stage, the Candidate Recommendation becomes a Proposed Recommendation, and the WG must seek a final endorsement from the Committee. Without this endorsement, the project reverts back to the Working Draft stage for further development.
- W3C Recommendation. At this stage, the W3C feels confident enough to recommend that individuals and organizations implement standard technology in their work.
W3C members[edit | edit source]
The overall Director of W3C is Tim Berners-Lee, who is part of a management team that is supported by staff members and various interns.[4]
As of 2011, the W3C had 326 members.[5] Its members are non-profit organizations, governmental entities, other types of businesses and individuals. In order to become a W3C member an application must be submitted, which will be reviewed and approved by W3C. [6]
In order to be accessible to a wide range of international organizations, W3C offers membership fees on a sliding scale dependent on annual revenue, type of business, and the location of the organization's headquarters.[7]