> There are two alternatives when coming up with a standard: drag people through a committee forever to pin down every little feature--or just have one of the c

> There are two alternatives when coming up with a standard: drag people through a committee forever to pin down every little feature--or just have one of the concerned parties throw together a working implementation You can do #2 in the open. This is what Mozilla is doing with it's Web APIs. Doing it in the open hasn't slowed them down at all.