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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Presented by Faith Harrison Jennifer Yarrow. Overview. SDO and SSO Brief history and description W3C Members Open Standard /W3C Requirements An Industry problem Group activity Wrap up.
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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Presented by Faith Harrison Jennifer Yarrow
Overview • SDO and SSO • Brief history and description • W3C Members • Open Standard /W3C Requirements • An Industry problem • Group activity • Wrap up
Standards Developing Organizations/ Standards Setting Organizations • Standards Developing Organization • American National Standards Institute (ANSI) • Sole U.S. representative for ISO • Accredited more the 270 private and public standard developers. • NISO • Accredited developer by the ANSI • Standards Setting Organizations • W3C (formal) • OASIS • ITEF
History • Tim Berners-Lee • Founded in October 1994 • Headquarters: • MIT/CSAIL – USA • ERCIM – France • Keio University – Japan • Many others
What do they do? • International consortium, keep full time staffing and work on development projects with their member organizations. • Specifications • Guidelines • Software • Tools • Ensure compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards.
Member Organizations • Introduce new ideas: • W3C workshops • Resource Description Framework (10/25-10/26/07) • Incubator activities • Common Web Language (Ended 10/15/07) • Member Submissions • Current members: • IBM • HP • Nokia • Chevron
Process of an activity Dardailler, Daniel. Web Open Standards. Mary 14, 2007. http://www.w3.org/2007/05/dd-saopen.html
What are open standards? • Publicly available • Various rights associated with it • Restricted with royalty-free • Technologies approved by formalized committees • Patents • Reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing (RAND)
Requirements for W3C Open Standards • Transparency • Relevance • Openness • Impartiality and consensus • Availability • Maintenance
Industry Problems • Patents • Trade-offs (best technology or unencumbered) • Undiscovered claims • Unexpected royalty fees • Complex licensing requirements • Litigation • “Submarine patents” • JPEG standard
Examples of W3C standards • CSS • CGI • DOM • HTML • RDF • SVG • WSDL • XACML • XHTML • XML • XML Events • Xforms • SOAP • SRGS • SSML • VoiceXML • XML Information Set • XML Schema • Xquery • XSLT
Wrap up • SDO/SSO • History/description of W3C • Current members and their benefits • Standards • Patents