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@hattiecat @maiyannah ... umh, yeah, isn't it what the Big corporations in the industry do ? ... most of the times, do they introduce their own 'salt' , based on existing technologies... and later on they come back knocking at W3C ... saying, "hey, everybody is using it... that's already a 'de facto' standard' isn'it " ?
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Standardizing network freedom — !fediverse
#GNU MediaGoblin https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/standardizing-network-freedom/ #ActivityPub is a federated social network protocol used to connect together decentralized Web sites running software such as Mastodon, Kroeg, and soon, MediaGoblin. How does ActivityPub work? What is the future of the standard and related work? What are Decentralized Identifiers, Capabilities, the "Web Of Trust," and why should you care? What are the lessons learned about standardization processes themselves, what roles and responsibilities should standards organizations play, and how can we make sure they have the right incentive structures? https://quitter.es/attachment/1644386
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@jordila @maiyannah The companies that actually make the browsers are not even bothering with W3C any more. They don't have to - they are what people use, so what they implement is ipso facto the "standard", whether endorsed by a club like W3C or not.
This quote from the editor of WHATWG spec (and a Google engineer) is revealing: 'Where WHATWG values technical precision, he said, the W3C "is an organization supported by large annual fees from large companies, and its primary organizational goal is to ensure these companies remain as paying members.'
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/13/apple_google_microsoft_and_mozilla_kick_w3c_to_the_curb/
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