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Who's Driving the Bus?
- W3C
- An international consortium to develop technology
- Issues "Recommendations"
- Broad range of activities relating to the web
- OASIS
- Long history from SGML
- An international consortium to develop interoperable industry
specifications based on public standards
- Focused on making standards interoperate in practice
- Lot of work on vocabularies built with XML
- Issues specifications, test suites
- Many others working developing particular XML vocabularies
W3C: define core technology
OASIS: use the technology
W3C
- by consensus
- not a standards body
- organizations (mostly)
OASIS
- interoperable industry specifications
- based on public standards such as XML
- includes organizations and individuals
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