almost. It would be exactly the same if it was "If we don't like it we will not do it, if we like it we will do it, and in both cases we set up a w3 working gro

almost. It would be exactly the same if it was "If we don't like it we will not do it, if we like it we will do it, and in both cases we set up a w3 working group for writing the formal declaration that this is what we now agree on". Welcome to HTML5: a document that comes out of the work of tens of thousands of people across decades of historically-encumbered practices. It's done remarkably well, and if you actually read the spec, is way more sensible than you would think that development track would give us.