The W3C has been established to develop common standards for the evolution of the World-Wide Web.
Membership is open to any organisation that signs a membership agreement.
The Esprit project WebCore, set up in 1994, supports the W3C, and will ensure the technical development and industrial exploitation aspects. A key objective of W3C and the WebCore project is to deliver reference code implementations to embody and promote standards in the area of protocols for the World-Wide Web. W3C also provides other public services, including a repository of information about the World-Wide Web for developers and users, and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate the use of new technology.