NCSA is committed to supporting style sheets in its Mosaic browser, and to helping to develop and support all industry standards for use in Web technology. CSS is an important step forward in interoperability on the Web. While the flexibility of the Web architecture will not prevent the use of other style sheet languages, W3C's CSS will provide a firm foundation for a widely deployed interoperable style sheet language. The W3C exists to realize the full potential of the World Wide Web, the universe of network-accessible information. It operates by providing a neutral forum and developing common protocols and reference code.
Membership is open to any organization.
To date, the Consortium comprises more than 130 organizations. The LCS has helped information technology grow from a mere curiosity to 10 percent of the industrial world's economies by its pioneering efforts in interactive computing, computer networking, distributed systems and public key cryptography. LCS members and alumni have started some thirty companies and have pioneered the Nubus, the X-Window System, the RSA algorithm, the Ethernet and spreadsheets.