Who participates in the W3C?
The W3C is a member-supported consortium including both software vendors and a variety of consumers. It is hosted by three institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory of Computer Science (MIT/LCS) in the United States, ERCIM in Europe (taking over in 2003 from the French Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)), and Keio University in Japan. The W3C also maintains international offices. The members are a fairly diverse group of companies and organizations. The usual suspects (Microsoft, AOL, Sun Microsystems, and IBM) participate, as do large customers (like Boeing, Electricité de France, and the United States Defense Information Systems Agency), educational institutions and organizations (University of Edinburgh HCRC Language Technology Group, OCLC, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and a large number of small-to-medium companies. Membership allows organizations and their employees to participate on W3C projects and gives th
