Appendix B. The W3C and W3C Documents

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the primary organization for official World Wide Web recommendations.

Tim Berners-Lee formed the W3C in 1994 and continues to act as its director. The consortium is now jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS), INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique), and Keio University of Japan (Shonan Fujisawa Campus). The members of the W3C, which constitute the W3C Advisory Committee, are dues-paying organizations that, along with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the European Commission, fund the organization.

The W3C has change control over various Web content standards, ...

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