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W3C: Web Standards and Goals

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international standards organization that develops protocols and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth of the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994, the W3C seeks to avoid market fragmentation by developing open standards for web languages and protocols. It works through a consensus-based process where members from industry, academia, and governments can participate equally. The W3C's goals include making the web accessible to everyone regardless of hardware, software, or other factors, and enabling it to be used on all devices.

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W3C: Web Standards and Goals

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international standards organization that develops protocols and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth of the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994, the W3C seeks to avoid market fragmentation by developing open standards for web languages and protocols. It works through a consensus-based process where members from industry, academia, and governments can participate equally. The W3C's goals include making the web accessible to everyone regardless of hardware, software, or other factors, and enabling it to be used on all devices.

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W3C

World Wide Web Consortium

Presented by : S Hrudai Tej.


2015114.
WC3: Founder
 Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the
World Wide Web in 1984.
 Served as W3C Director since 1994 when the organization was founded.
 He says that “W3C members work together to design web
technologies that build upon its versatility, giving the world the
power to enhance communication and commerce for anyone,
anywhere, anytime, and using any device.”
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
 The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium which works for
the development of many different web standards. Their mission is to lead the World Wide
Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term
growth for the Web.
 W3C does not have a single physical headquarters. There are four institutions,
however, that "host" W3C is in Cambridge, USA.
 The W3C has an Advisory Board which was created to guide the organization on issues
such as strategy, legal matters, and conflict resolution.
 W3C seeks to avoid market fragmentation and thus open standards for Web languages and
protocols has been proposed. To have a single web in the market and to achieve the goal of
one Web, specifications for the Web's formats and protocols must be compatible with one
another and allow any hardware and software used to access the Web to work together thus
W3C designs and promotes interoperable open formats and protocols to avoid market
fragmentation.
Open Standards Guidelines
 Transparency
 A public process with public access to all information.
 Relevance
 Start based on due analysis and market needs for all.
 Openness
 Anybody can participate: users and developers; industry and research; governments
and public.
 Impartial and consensus based
 Guaranteed fairness and equal weight for each participant.
 Availability
 Free access to standard documents.
 Clear process for translations and IPR rules.
 Maintenance
 Testing, Revisions.
W3C: Long Term Goals for the Web
 Web for Everyone
 Make the Web available regardless of hardware, software, language, culture, etc.
 Web on Everything
 Make Web access from any kind of device as simple and convenient as possible.
 Knowledge Base
 Enable people to solve problems that would be otherwise too complex or tedious to
solve.
 Trust and Confidence
 Make accountability, security, confidence and confidentiality possible for all users.
Business Processes
 W3C’s work attempts to standardize the Web.
 Each member contributes to the process with decisions being made through community
consensus.
 Each member has the same decision power no matter what size they are.
 If a general consensus can’t be reached, decisions are made on a majority basis.
W3C’s Influence
 The W3C has made over 90 recommendations since its start in 1994.
 W3C operations are administered by offices in Japan, France, and the United States.
 As more corporations join, W3C’s recommendations will become the standard for the
WWW and thus make it easier for both corporations and the public.
 W3C is comprised of more than 400 members including the world’s foremost technology
companies such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, Nokia, Microsoft, AT&T, Intel and Oracle.
 Even National Informatics centre (NIC) and Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology while drafting the guidelines for the Indian government Websites (Version 2.0)
they referred to the guidelines that were established by W3C.
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