Re: RDFa and Web Directions North 2009

Sam Ruby wrote:
> Anybody is allowed to produce a spec.  In fact, the license that Ian 
> made his spec available under has liberal provisions for productions 
> of derivative works.  If such a spec attracts a larger consensus than 
> the one that Ian is producing, it will be adopted by the HTML working 
> group.
>
> For something resembling RDFa to be included in HTML 5, somebody needs 
> to do the work and gain consensus.  That means either convincing Ian, 
> convincing somebody else, or picking up that work yourself.
>
As an "outsider" from the "street";

HTML 5,  Google, Mozilla, Apple, are in control of the spec(?).

Ian is the gatekeeper/editor?