The W3C note is a specification for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. By Ariba, IBM and Microsoft.
International industry consortium founded in 1994 whose purpose is to develop specifications, guidelines, software, and tools to promote the Internet's evolution and ensure its interoperability.
Covers code tables, Unicode, HTML and XML and links to other resources and discusses internationalization and localization issues relating to character sets.