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The '''OpenGL Architecture Review Board''' (ARB) is an industry consortium that currently governs the [[OpenGL]] specification.

It was formed in 1992, and defines the conformance tests, approves the [[OpenGL]] specification and advances the standard. On [[July 31]] [[2006]], it was announced that the ARB voted to transfer control of the OpenGL specification to [[Khronos Group]].<ref>{{

cite web

|url=http://www.khronos.org/news/press/Releases/opengl_arb_to_pass_control_of_opengl_specification_to_khronos_group/

|title=OpenGL ARB to Pass Control of OpenGL Specification to Khronos Group

|year=[[July 31]] [[2006]]

|accessdate=2006-08-01

|work=Press Releases

|publisher=Khronos Group

}}</ref>

[[As of 2004|As of November 2004]], the voting members are [[3Dlabs]], [[Apple Computer]], [[ATI Technologies|ATI]], [[Dell]], [[IBM]], [[Intel]], [[Nvidia]], [[Silicon Graphics|SGI]] and [[Sun Microsystems]], plus other contributing members. [[Microsoft]] was an original voting member, but left in March 2003.

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The group meets regularly every three months. Any company can apply for membership through an application.

== See also ==

* [[OpenGL]]

* [[GLSL]]

== References ==

= External links =

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== External links ==

* http://www.opengl.org/about/arb/ &mdash; The official page for the OpenGL ARB