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The '''World Wide Web Consortium''' ('''W3C''') is the main international standards organization for the [[World Wide Web]].

== Description ==

Founded and currently led by [[Tim Berners-Lee]], the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. 

As of 10 April 2015, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has 397 members.

W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

== Standards ==

W3C/[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force IETF] Standards (over [[Internet protocol suite]]):

* CGI
* [[CSS]]
* [[DOM]]
* GRDDL
* HTML
* MathML
* OWL
* P3P
* RDF
* SISR
* SKOS
* SMIL
* SOAP
* SPARQL
* SRGS
* SSML
* [[SVG]]
* VoiceXML
* [[XHTML]]
* XHTML+Voice
* [[XML]]
* XML Events
* XML Information Set
* XML Schema
* XPath
* XQuery
* XSL-FO
* XSLT
* WCAG
* WSDL
* XForms

== See also ==

* [[Internet protocol suite]]
* [[Tim Berners-Lee]]
* [[World Wide Web]]

== External Links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium World Wide Web Consortium] @ Wikipedia

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