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Bodies of the Web
W3C:
the World-Wide Web Consortium.
Jointly run by INRIA in Europe and MIT in the US. Members from all over the
world. Members sign a three-year contract and pay a fee, for which they get
a variety of benefits such as access to advance information, participation in
the development of the standards and protocols and so on. Members must be organisations
or companies, there is no individual membership.
http://www.w3.org/
IW3C2:
the International WWW Conference Committee. It organises the series of academic-level
conferences about Web technology and development. It endorses local or regional
conferences with the same goals.
http://jeeves.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Public/IW3C2/
Web Society:
A society for users of the Web
as individuals. Companies and organisations are not members. This is like an
automobile club.
http://www.websoc.at/
Internet Society:
Forum for issues concerning the Internet, its protocols, the Internet Architecture
Board, the Internet Engineering Task Force etc. Is not web-specific and not
related to the W3C.
http://www.isoc.org/
It must be understood that these bodies are composed of individuals who often
serve on more than one body. Therefore there is a lot of synergy and cooperation,
but the goals of each body are quite well-defined, separate and not to be confused.
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