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

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

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|url=http://www.khronos.org/news/press/Releasesreleases/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]]

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[[As of 2004|As of November 2004]], the votingVoting members areincluded [[3Dlabs]], [[Apple_Inc|Apple]], [[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.

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

== See also ==

* [[OpenGL]]

* [[GLSL]]

* [[Khronos Group]]

* [[ARB (GPU assembly language)]]