On 10/11/16 6:57 PM, Bobby Holley wrote:
Most development seems to happen under the WHATWG, which hosts the specs that implementors look at and the umbrella under which they discuss. The W3C then occasionally publishes arbitrary snapshots, which don't have any particular technical utility but, by virtue of being published, prevent any of the (many) members of the W3C from claiming patent infringement at some later point.
Not quite. It prevents members of the W3C that participate in the specific working group that publishes the snapshot from making patent claims on it. See https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-non-participants
I'm not even sure who the participants in the web apps WG are, though it probably does have a somewhat broader membership than is typical, because it has so many deliverables.
The only downside of this admittedly-odd model seems to be the confusion that results when somebody believes that the W3C publications have technical utility.
W3C policy requires specs developed at the W3C proper to so believe. And in fact lots of stuff _is_ being developed at the W3C, not the WHATWG (e.g. all the output of the webcrypto and webperf working groups).
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