The Open Web

So there's this interesting blog post about the Open Web:
http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2008/04/whats-open-web-and-why-is-it-important.html

The *first* principle is:

  * Decentralization - Rather than controlled by one entity or 
centralized, the web is decentralized -- anyone can create a web site or 
web service.


I wonder, when will this rather obvious point also be applied to 
defining semantic vocabularies? :)

-Ben