The machinations behind this have being going on for years, and go much deeper. Two chairs of the W3C's Web Platform Working Group, who both also happen to be

The machinations behind this have being going on for years, and go much deeper. Two chairs of the W3C's Web Platform Working Group, who both also happen to be members of the W3C Advisory Board which oversees the W3C Process, appear to have decided it's fine for them to routinely ignore the W3C Process. Both these individuals seem to be using their positions in the W3C to pursue some kind of personal vendetta. Of course, in theory the W3C Process exists to prevent this kind of thing from happening. One of these individuals also happens to be a W3C ex-staffer. You can read a somewhat unfavourable summary of this ongoing farcical situation (by a current W3C staff member) here: https://freenode.logbot.info/whatwg/20160614#c998179 https://freenode.logbot.info/whatwg/20160614#c998179