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Why does the testimonial contains only Chinese company? I think it's really great but it would be better to have company from all around the world

mcs_ 7y ago
I'm not from China, from my perspective, those companies are from around the world.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago
  ...really? From my perspective, it's a bunch of companies that are known only for operating within China (360 / Alibaba / Baidu / Tencent), two hardware companies best known for being Chinese (Huawei / Xiaomi), and one I've never heard of (agora.io). Over half of the testimonials are in Chinese. I'm curious too - was there really no non-Chinese company that would endorse this?
  - mcs_ 7y ago
    Well, apparently this was a real question. W3C members are visible here: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List Those are the members that decided that WebAssembly is now an official web standard, not the testimonials. I'm investigating more about the voting system here, https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ERB.html https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ERB.html.
    - domenicd 7y ago
      The voting system is roughly: any paying member company can submit a "formal objection", which will be considered by W3C management ("on behalf of" Tim Berners-Lee). If upheld by management then the recommendation doesn't go forward. (This is very rare; I don't know of any instances off the top of my head.)
zmzrr 7y ago
Would I be reading this if it was only American companies?
- efdee 7y ago
  America is not China.
  - zmzrr 7y ago
    Are you sure? For instance, they are two countries, whose names end with the letter "A"... dare I continue?
    - dang 7y ago
      Can you please cut out the lower/boring segment of trolling? (like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804133)
  - efdee 7y ago
    Shocked by the downvotes, to be honest.
- dubcanada 7y ago
  No, probably not. I think it's just a little shocking as it kind of makes it seem like nobody outside of China supports WebAssembly. I think having a wide variety of companies from open source "pro web" to Google and Alibaba might be better then having a pile of extremely wealthy firewall supporting companies.
- jjeaff 7y ago
  No, because several different American companies would represent several differing viewpoints. A bunch of Chinese companies is essentially the viewpoint of the current dictator of China, should he choose to weigh in.
faitswulff 7y ago
Maybe they're just the earliest adopters.
ConcernedCoder 7y ago
That struck me as wierd too, then it got me thinking about the 'great wall' and China's ability to insert tracking ( or other ) JavaScript into a user's session... and then how that's going to be different now in the age of web assembly... I can imagine it would make obfuscation of intent easier for one thing.
vdnkh 7y ago
The Twitch player is written in WASM, but I don't think we're a W3C member.

mcs_ 7y ago

I'm not from China, from my perspective, those companies are from around the world.

thaumasiotes 7y ago
...really? From my perspective, it's a bunch of companies that are known only for operating within China (360 / Alibaba / Baidu / Tencent), two hardware companies best known for being Chinese (Huawei / Xiaomi), and one I've never heard of (agora.io). Over half of the testimonials are in Chinese. I'm curious too - was there really no non-Chinese company that would endorse this?
- mcs_ 7y ago
  Well, apparently this was a real question. W3C members are visible here: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List Those are the members that decided that WebAssembly is now an official web standard, not the testimonials. I'm investigating more about the voting system here, https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ERB.html https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ERB.html.
  - domenicd 7y ago
    The voting system is roughly: any paying member company can submit a "formal objection", which will be considered by W3C management ("on behalf of" Tim Berners-Lee). If upheld by management then the recommendation doesn't go forward. (This is very rare; I don't know of any instances off the top of my head.)

zmzrr 7y ago

Would I be reading this if it was only American companies?

efdee 7y ago
America is not China.
- zmzrr 7y ago
  Are you sure? For instance, they are two countries, whose names end with the letter "A"... dare I continue?
  - dang 7y ago
    Can you please cut out the lower/boring segment of trolling? (like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804133)
- efdee 7y ago
  Shocked by the downvotes, to be honest.
dubcanada 7y ago
No, probably not. I think it's just a little shocking as it kind of makes it seem like nobody outside of China supports WebAssembly. I think having a wide variety of companies from open source "pro web" to Google and Alibaba might be better then having a pile of extremely wealthy firewall supporting companies.
jjeaff 7y ago
No, because several different American companies would represent several differing viewpoints. A bunch of Chinese companies is essentially the viewpoint of the current dictator of China, should he choose to weigh in.

faitswulff 7y ago

Maybe they're just the earliest adopters.

ConcernedCoder 7y ago

That struck me as wierd too, then it got me thinking about the 'great wall' and China's ability to insert tracking ( or other ) JavaScript into a user's session... and then how that's going to be different now in the age of web assembly... I can imagine it would make obfuscation of intent easier for one thing.

vdnkh 7y ago

The Twitch player is written in WASM, but I don't think we're a W3C member.