World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Responsible for defining Web Standards like XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS, PNG, XSLT, etc
October 1994 - US Host established at MIT
To realise the full potential of the Web as a robust scaleable adaptive infrastructure preserving interoperability
Director: Tim Berners-Lee
1995: European Host at INRIA then ERCIM with EU support:
1994
Webcore
: established European Host
1997
W3C-LA
: raised awareness, set up European Offices and recruited European Members
2001
QUESTION-HOW
: disseminated modern web techniques in Europe
1996: Asian Host at Keio University, Japan
Members include all the major players (Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Apple, Adobe, Mozilla, Opera, Canon, Vodafone, Nokia, Boeing, BT, BBC, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Google, HP, Hitachi, Intel, RealNetworks, SAP, Seiko Epson, Siemens, Toshiba, Walt Disney, Xerox, Yahoo etc)
