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| A standard goes through the stages ''Working Draft'', ''Last Call'', ''Proposed Recommendation'' and ''Candidate Recommendation''. It ends as a '''''Recommendation'''''. The Consortium leaves it up to manufacturers to follow the recommendations. Many do. | A standard goes through the stages ''Working Draft'', ''Last Call'', ''Proposed Recommendation'' and ''Candidate Recommendation''. It ends as a '''''Recommendation'''''. The Consortium leaves it up to manufacturers to follow the recommendations. Many do. | ||
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) comprises a consortium that produces standards -- "recommendations", as they call it -- for the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee, the original creator of the HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which form the basis of the Web, heads the Consortium.
A standard goes through the stages Working Draft, Last Call, Proposed Recommendation and Candidate Recommendation. It ends as a Recommendation. The Consortium leaves it up to manufacturers to follow the recommendations. Many do.
The Consortium's headquarters is on the fifth floor of the Gates Tower in theStata Center at MIT.
See also: Cascading Style Sheets, DOM, SVG, XML, WAI