Internet Basics and HTML

Internet Standards

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Democratic. Open to anyone. Vendor organization led by dues-paying corporations.
After-the-fact. Request for Comments (RFC) Before-the-fact.
TCP-IP, MIME, SMTP HTTP, HTML, XML, CSS
  1. Experimental
  2. Proposed standard
  3. Draft standard
  4. Standard
  5. Informational- not required
  6. Historic- obsolete
  1. Note
  2. Working draft
  3. Candidate recommendation
  4. Proposed recommendation
  5. Recommendation

José M. Vidal .

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