World Wide Web Consortium
An international community that develops and maintains standards and protocols for the World Wide Web.
Wrapper
A technique for including a non-object-oriented component into a component architecture by providing an interface to communicate with the object software. Often used to link legacy applications to a new system.
X/Open™
A nonprofit organization that developed interoperability standards for unlike systems.
Zero-Knowledge Proof
A cryptographic technique that allows one party to prove the validity of a statement or claim without revealing the underlying sensitive information or data.