W3C vs ISOC

• the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web
• founded on October 1994 by Tim-Berners Lee
• has 400 organizations, 441 members and 16 offices all over the world
• created to ensure compatibility and agreement among industry members in the adoption of new standards
• has no provision for individual membership
• does not have a certification program

Mission

“to lead the World Wide Web to its potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web”

Goals

• To make the benefits of the web available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability.
• To make Web access from any kind of device as simple, easy and convenient as Web access from a desktop.
• To enable people to solve problems that would otherwise be too tedious or complex to solve.To promote technologies that enable a more collaborative environment, a Web where accountability, security, confidence, and confidentiality are all possible, and where people participate according to their individual privacy requirements and preferences.

Activities

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Graphics
• HTML
• Internationalization
• MathMobile Web Initiative
• Multimodal Interaction
• Patent Policy
• Privacy
• Rich Web Client
• Security
• Semantic Web
• Style
• Synchronized Multimedia
• Ubiquitous Web Applications
• Voice Browser
• WAI Technical
• Web ServicesXForm

Membership

W3C Membership is available to all organizations. If your organization is investing significant resources into Web technologies — either by developing Web-based products, using Web technologies as an enabling medium for your work, conducting research on the Web, and/or developing products based on W3C specifications — then your organization should be a W3C Member. Adoption of W3C standards and reliance of global commerce and information exchange upon these standards continue to grow. Those who participate in our work have a unique opportunity to shape W3C standards and to leverage them to create new markets, expand existing markets, and participate directly in the revolution that continues to change the way the world works.

• is an international, nonprofit organization founded to provide leadership in internet related standards education and policy
• founded on 1992 by Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn and Lyman Chapin
• has 80 organizations, 27000 individual members and 3 offices
• created to provide a corporate structure to support the internet standards development process
• has a provision for individual membership
• do have a certification program

Mission

“to assure the open development, evolution and use of the internet for the benefit of all the people throughout the world”

Goals

• Development, maintenance, evolution, and dissemination of standards for the Internet and its internetworking technologies and applications.
• Growth and evolution of the Internet architecture.
• Maintenance and evolution of effective administrative processes necessary for operation of the global Internet and internets.
• Education and research related to the Internet and internetworking.
• Harmonization of actions and activities at international levels to facilitate the development and availability of the Internet.
• Collection and dissemination of information related to the Internet and internetworking, including histories and archives.
• Assisting technologically developing countries, areas, and peoples in implementing and evolving their Internet infrastructure and use.Liaison with other organizations, governments and the general public for coordination, collaboration, and education in effecting the above purposes.

Activities

• Trust and the future of the Internet
• Interconnectivity and standards development
• ISOC Fellowship to the IETF
• Membership and chapter development
• The User Centric Internet
• ccTLD Workshops
• Internet governance leadership
• Conferences and Events
• Internet policy presence on key issues
• Regional ISOC Bureaus
• PublicationsRegional Policy Advisory Groups

Membership

ISOC is supported by an active, global network of members who help promote and pursue the ISOC mission in all parts of the Internet community and all parts of the world. Members benefit from access to educational opportunities and informational resources and they participate actively in ISOC discussions and activities. Members are vital to ISOC’s existence, providing energy, support, ideas, inspiration, and funding.