By: Jose A. Toledo
The World Wide Web has many goals. The following are three of their main goals, Universal Access, Semantic Web, and Web of Trust.
The W3C believes that it is not a goal, but more like their mission to make the web accessible from any part of the world, to many different people all around the world. They believe that the web is a great form of communication, and source of knowledge, and that it should be shared with everybody without caring about their culture, geographical location, or mental ability.
Their second goal is to establish a semantic web (semantic means having to do with meaning), they want to make the web express a meaning, in terms that other computers around the world could understand and work with. They want to make the web faster, when we're looking for information about: cars, sports, etc. The W3C uses languages such as RDF, XML, XML Schema, and XML Signatures to help make the web a semantic web.
The W3C has a main concern, making the web trustworthy. They call this goal the Web of Trust, because it is very important that the web is a place where information is not just thrown there. They are interested in making rules and laws that protect and verify that the information posted in the web is accurate and reliable. They are also interested in making people responsible for the information that they publish in the web, which they may also be accountable for. These goals make W3C work around XML signatures, versioning, group authoring, etc.
