🤝 W3C Reached An Asset Agreement With MIT

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is the organization that stands behind many of the World Wide Web standards. It was formed 28 years ago, and since that time it takes care of a steady development of the Internet including CSS, HTML, JSON-LD, MathML, HTML5,SOAP, XHTML, XML, XQuery and more. W3C has a staff of 63 people. The organization has offices in France, US, Japan and China thanks to the hosts. The USA host is partly MIT.

Robin Berjon, who is elected W3C board member in a series of tweets outlined on 16th of December the difficulties the organization faced with the end of 2022.

It seemed like there was a disagreement between MIT and W3C about the arrangements:

The tweet got the attention of Mat Mullenweg, who offered help:

Kudos!

Fortunately just yesterday, 22nd of December, Coralie Mercier, the head of W3C Marketing and Communications released a statement that just before Christmas both parties solved the MIT asset transfer issue and reached an agreement:

Following its formation on 20 October, the W3C Board of Directors is pleased to have reached an agreement with MIT that…