W3C and CSCW

• W3 Designed as an Open Collaborative Hypertext System
• Current Customer/Supplier W3 Components Inappropriate for CSCW
• W3 Building Blocks Provide More Flexibility
• W3C Directions:
• Working closely with W3C member organisations
• Extensions of W3 Standards: Content Negotation, Style Sheets, Links as Objects, ...
• Collaborative Web Editing (Amaya)
• Distributed Object Computing