"The specifications published by the W3C are not standards, and the W3C is not a standards organisation. It's an industry consortium that publishes open specifications. In fact, it's intentionally constructed in this way; Tim Berners Lee intentionally avoided making it a standards body when he set it up." -- "Jim", commenting on IE Blog, February 2005
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