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Revision as of 11:52, 6 January 2002 by 195.186.254.xxx (talk) (added the stages for developing a standard: working draft, proposed recommendation and recommendation.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3c.org/), W3C for short, is an organization that produces standards for the World Wide Web. It is headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the original creator of the protocols on which the Web is based.
A standard goes through the stages Working Draft and Proposed Recommendation. It ends as a Recommendation. It's up to the manufactures to follow the recommendations which is the case for many of them.
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