Web 3D ConsortiumWeb 3D ConsortiumWeb3D_cdb84f7a-e1ad-4e58-ab78-e4565daf2b68The Web3D Consortium will support a collaborative environment and drive programs to develop and advance an open standards, royalty free 3D interchange format based on XML, along with tools to represent and communicate 3D scenes and objects between diverse authoring and presentation hardware and software on the web, distributed networks and mobile devices._4bdfb2f8-7b0b-42b1-be14-60773500b23dIndustry FragmentationReduce the 3D industry fragmentation by allowing asset interchange that fully preserves asset data between different 3D content creation applications, simulation engines, games, professional and consumer hardware and mobile devices_afe595dd-5329-489c-b1a1-c145d9cbd9851Scalable ComponentsScalable with profiles that define and componentize feature sets that adapts to the underlying hardware_07b374d5-2c4f-4293-ad40-99d9091ab67f1.1Other Standards BodiesActive association with other standards bodies including the W3C to establish interoperable XML protocols and technologies _333902ad-3845-4687-b8d4-6fd9a51c2d451.2Data Durability and InteroperabilityEnsure data durability, data interoperability, and provides a way for developers to port data between multiple representations and formats, and define 'high-level' markup tags for application-specific needs_18f76ee6-448d-4ea1-83f2-5c04fedaa7632XMLUse industry standard XML so that the strength of the format is not dependent on the continued existence of any one organization._2c6bd742-5b72-4d62-9255-21cc32d549022.1Assets exported to or created in X3D will be usable at any future dateAvailabilityPublicly available and royalty free. _7a0db4ed-d960-42bb-b155-c2af6e58276d2.2ISO ApprovalISO approval for core specifications, extensions and amendments _b318b11e-3c37-4a30-bb78-65a7291ce3e52.3ExtensibilityExtensible to allow specific functions to be easily added for vertical market applications_22dc69bd-5a76-4ff3-8f61-2a4b1ac2cefc2.4Conformance TestingDevelop conformance test for each of the profiles to insure reliability and consistency of X3D files and applications_bdf8b710-c582-49b2-a36e-01ed0f5820c42.52010-02-08http://www.web3d.org/about/mission/ArthurColman (www.drybridge.com)colman@drybridge.com