Re: [patwg-charter] Design teams set up to address antitrust concerns (#48)

That sort of bias is something that can be left to chairs - and the working group - to manage.

Let's say that companies X and Y are strongly dominant in some way.  A design team is formed, with a large contingent from those companies.  The output of that design team strongly favours these companies.  The working group - which should be more diverse - can reject that output on that basis.

Much of this is inherent in the W3C [decision-making process](https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#Consensus).  The IETF follows a [similar](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2026#section-6.5) [process](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2418#section-3.4), following similar [principles](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3935).

If the concern is about anti-trust policies, I'm less familiar with those.

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