WWW6: representing the Web community

jean-francois abramatic and some of his colleagues from the board of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) asked the audience for feedback about the Web in general and this conference in particular. he explained that this conference was not organized by the World Wide Web Consortium, but by the stanford university and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) under the auspices of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2). however, the W3C participated in the conference by providing a complete stream of presentations.

some of the issues discussed are:

• there is a lot of talk about internationalization, but the whole conference was held in english.
  jean-francois abramatic promised that the W3C will support the local organization committee of WWW7 to address this request.

• the Web is no longer was it used to be two or three years ago. there is a lot of commercialization.
  a member of the board explained that he can't see what's wrong with that. he wants to be able to re-new his driving license over the Web and he loves to shop at two o'clock in the morning sitting in his living room. i certainly agree with this statement. we need some commercial benefits by using the Internet, so the people with money care about the Internet and help to improve it.

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