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Devil's advocate: Are these companies doing this to control the new standards or are they doing this because adhering to the web standard (both that you linked

• kevingadd 4y ago
  Arguably these are sort of the same thing. Being subject to the whims of the committees is a competitive disadvantage, since the committees are largely controlled by big corporate players. So if you create a new competing standard you control, it's 2-for-1: Not only are you no longer subject to the whims of big companies, but you get to set the rules. One of the upsides to using the big committee standards is that the big companies often have a reference implementation you can use, which is a time-saver. But then you can hit sharp edges or limitations.
• syrusakbary 4y ago
  Sometimes is better to put things into perspective to see if certain arguments hold. In this case, you just need to analyze how fast they have been moving to see if iteration speed was the reason for pushing for own-governance outside of the web-standards (note: WASI, coined by those entities, was launched 4 years ago)