According to the generally accepted definition, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. The W3C is international; jointly hosted by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in the United States and in Europe by INRIA who provide both local support and performing core development. The W3C was initially established in collaboration with CERN, where the Web originated and with support from DARPA and the European Commission.
The W3C publishes a sample code implementation to promote each of their standards. All W3C products are available during development to W3C members, and then are made available to the general public a month after formal internal release. Membership is open only to organisations and not to individuals. Any industry or staff member can raise an issue for consideration. The W3C staff will then put together a briefing package describing the issue, its importance, the market relevance, technical issues, why the W3C should be involved, how it could help, next steps, and how much it would cost etc.
Total technology development and integration is the declared objective of World Wide Web Consortium or W3C. The W3C oversees development of the web technology standards. Soon after the web was created, it was realized that an independent standards making body was needed to ensure universality of functionality across the industry. In 1994, the W3 Consortium was formally established with support from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique in Europe and the European Commission, with a mandate to oversee development of common web protocols and promote web interoperability.
The W3C established offices at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in October, 1994, at INRIA in March, 1995, and then at the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan in August, 1996.
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