W3C focused on design by committee, de jure standards. WHATWG focuses on standardizing de facto standards. W3C’s HTML effort failed and now its HTML5 spec redir

W3C focused on design by committee, de jure standards. WHATWG focuses on standardizing de facto standards. W3C’s HTML effort failed and now its HTML5 spec redirects to WHATWG’s HTML5 spec. Maybe I misunderstood your comment, but sounds like you got it backwards.