The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced an agile track for developers and businesses to create web technology within W3C's international community of experts. The aim is to support the rapid evolution of web technology.
W3C has designed W3C Community Groups to promote diverse participation - anyone may propose a group, and groups start quickly as soon as there is a small measure of peer support. There are no fees to participate and active groups may work indefinitely. Lightweight participation policies let groups decide most aspects of how they work. The larger implementer community is expected to benefit from specifications available under royalty-free patent terms and permissive copyright.
With the launch of Community Groups, W3C seeks to offer a smooth path from innovation to open standardisation to recognition as an ISO/IEC International Standard. W3C's goals differ at each of these complementary stages, but they all contribute to the organisation's mission of developing interoperable standards to ensure the long-term growth of the web.
W3C also announced the launch of Business Groups that provide W3C members and non-members a vendor-neutral forum for the development of market-specific technologies and the means to have a powerful impact on the direction of web standards. W3C staff work with Business Groups to help them achieve their goals and to provide connectivity among groups with shared interests. For instance, a Business Group might compile industry-specific requirements or use cases as input to a W3C Working Group.
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