1. Presented by Faith Harrison Jennifer Yarrow

2. Overview SDO and SSO Brief history and description W3C Members Open Standard /W3C Requirements An Industry problem Group activity Wrap up

3. 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

4. History Tim Berners-Lee Founded in October 1994 Headquarters: MIT/CSAIL – USA ERCIM – France Keio University – Japan Many others

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Process of an activity Dardailler, Daniel. Web Open Standards. Mary 14, 2007. http://www.w3.org/2007/05/dd-saopen.html

8. 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)

9. Requirements for W3C Open Standards Transparency Relevance Openness Impartiality and consensus Availability Maintenance

10. Industry Problems Patents Trade-offs (best technology or unencumbered) Undiscovered claims Unexpected royalty fees Complex licensing requirements Litigation “Submarine patents” JPEG standard

11. 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

12. Wrap up SDO/SSO History/description of W3C Current members and their benefits Standards Patents

13. Q & A