[Governance] [article] The W3C Is At A Crossroads For The Web And Itself, With MIT Exiting As Admin And Disarray On All Fronts

[Ayden Férdeline via Governance]

Dear all,

This article might be of interest to list members. It offers an update on some important developments at the W3C that will result in changes to its organisational structure:

https://www.adexchanger.com/online-advertising/the-w3c-is-at-a-crossroads-for-the-web-and-itself-with-mit-exiting-as-admin-and-disarray-on-all-fronts/

These paragraphs in particular stuck out to me:

"The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), the main technical standards developer of the internet (HTML and CSS, the code underlying the web, are two such W3C standards), will lose longtime university partner MIT as administrator and US host organization at the end of this year.

... The W3C likely will settle on some form of tech industry backing as a non-profit, which would require larger companies primarily financing the group and some form of advisory council. Additional processes would need to be in place to ensure the bulk of the member companies have a say as well, not to mention the W3C’s actual mandate to represent web users."

I do not have a lot of knowledge personally of the W3C, but this feels like a situation that we and others should be monitoring?

Best wishes,

Ayden Férdeline
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