The Interop Glossary
An evolving vocabulary for the law of interoperability governing electronic data format and communication protocol technical specifications, standards, and technical regulations.
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium. An international consortium that develops information technology standards ("recommendations") with a particular emphasis on standards development for the World Wide Web. W3C is generally regarded as the leading standards organization in regard to development and maintenance of XML standards. See About the World Wide Web Consortium.
- WICD
- Web Integration Compound Document. WICD profiles describe rules for combining various combinations of XML and related markup languages into a compound document. WICD profiles all depend on W3C CDRF, a compound document interoperability framework standard. As of this writing, three WICD profiles have been published as candidate recommendations: [i] WICD Core 1.0; [ii] WICD Mobile 1.0; and [ii] WICD Full 1.0. WICD Mobile supersets WICD Core and WICD Full supersets WICD Mobile. WICD Full is targeted at desktop user agents.
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