The W3C, which was established over six years ago to help with the standardisation and design of components for the Web, takes submissions from these members as well as "countless" Invited Experts to help aid the development of W3C recommendations. Up to this date, the W3C has submitted 26 recommendations including HyperText Markup Lanuguage (HTML), eXtensible Markup Language (XML), eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML), Semantic Web and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
Members of the consortium include companies representing industry, research, government and citizen groups.
The W3C has also announced the publication of a revised XML-Signature Syntax and Processing Candidate Recommendation. The digital signatures currently under recommendation are being designed to provide integrity, signature assurance and non-repudiatability over Web data. W3C officials indicate that such features are especially important for documents that represent commitments such as contracts, price lists, and manifests.
