The World Wide Web Consortium , shortened W3C , is a Consortium founded in October 1994 to promote the compatibility of technologies of the World Wide Web such as HTML, XHTML, XML, RDF, CS, png, SVG and SOAP. The W3C does not emit Norme S with the European direction, but of the Recommandation S with value of standard industrialists.

The W3C is supervised by Tim Berners-Lee, the principal creator of the protocol URL, HTTP, and HTML.

Recommendations and certifications

A document W3C crosses several stages before becoming a Recommendation :

1. Working Draft (WD) (unmethodical of work),
2. Last Cal Working Draft (last call),
3. Candidate Recommendation (CR) (candidate with the recommendation),
4. Proposed Recommendation (PR) (recommendation suggested),
5. W3C Recommendation (REC) (recommendation of the W3C)

A recommendation can be updated by errata published separately, until the accumulation of sufficient modifications; a new version of the recommendation is then published (XML in is today with its third version). Sometimes, a recommendation starts again the process, like RDF. The W3C publishes also informative remarks which are not intended to be treated as a Norme.

The consortium leaves the care to the manufacturers to follow the recommendations. Contrary to the International organization of standardization or other international bodies of standardization, the W3C does not have a program of certification. However the technical specifications of the W3C define conformity in a more or less explicit and formal way. The level of implementation of the specifications was improved by the production of a report/ratio of implementation during the phase of Candidate Recommendation .

Management of the W3C

Its management is jointly assured by the Massachusetts Institute off Technology (MIT) with the the United States, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) in Europe (before the National research institute in data processing and automatically French (INRIA)) and the University Keio with the Japan.

Standards of the W3C

The W3C supervises the development of a whole of standard ( incomplete list ):

See too

Internal bonds

• World Wide Web
• Standard of the Web
• Service of validation of the semantic W3C
• Web
• png
• IETF
• O.P.I

External bonds

• World Wide Web Consortium - official site.
• List of the French translations available of documents W3C
• Validator, the verification system of the official compatibility of the pages.
• weblog of the W3C

Simple: World Wide Web Consortium

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