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Standards Compliance

When different programs interoperate they need to speak the same language.

We have seen what compliance with the TCP/IP standard has done in creating one unified Internet.

There are three major computing standards bodies. They are the Internet Engineering Task Force, the World Wide Web Consortium, and the International Standards Organization.

Obtaining the cooperation and agreement of competing commercial organizations is a complex political struggle for these bodies.

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