In a follow-up message, he noted that changing the LSB to be, essentially, "whatever Debian as well as all other actors in the FLOSS world are _actually _doing"

In a follow-up message, he noted that changing the LSB to be, essentially, "whatever Debian as well as all other actors in the FLOSS world are _actually _doing" might make the standard—and the effort to support it in Debian—more valuable. I think this strategy worked remarkably well for HTML5. Standards is a two-way conversation with the community.