Evolvability Introduction The World Wide Web Consortium was founded in 1994 on the mandate to lead the Evolution of the Web while maintaining its Interoperability as a universal space. "Interoperability" and "Evolvability" were two goals for all W3C technology, and whilst there was a good understanding of what the first meant, it was difficult to define the second in terms of technology. Since then W3C has had first hand experience of the tension beween these two goals, and has seen the proce...