A non-technical advantage might be that it's not owned by one company. Also, things don't get adopted because of their technical merits but because of random c

A non-technical advantage might be that it's not owned by one company. Also, things don't get adopted because of their technical merits but because of random chance[1], or we wouldn't have Javascript today. So having "just another" go at trying to establish a sensible standard is good enough for me. [1] From a technical standpoint, I consider politics, hype, parasitic corporate behavior, etc, "random chance."