Please Keep Our Decentralized Web Standards Open

Hello Everyone,

Lisa Rein, Co-founder of Creative Commons and Aaron Swartz Day here.

I have strong concerns about moving any open social web work out of the CG
process and into a WG because it means less folks will be able to
participate.

The whole point of creating a Decentralized Web is to have a more level
playing field where independent groups can interoperate and flourish,
which requires the process for creating Decentralized Web standards to be
as transparent and inclusive as possible.

To that end, I think it would be a tragedy to move any decentralized
social web standard activity from the current open, consensus-based
process to any closed, member-only process.

Decentralized Web standards deserve to be developed in a truly open and
inclusive manner - rather than a top-down approach where all concerned
voices cannot possibly be heard, simply because they don’t actually have
access to the process.

Only a transparent process, that is truly inclusive, will have any hope of
being able to address the concerns of the numerous, diverse and often
marginalized communities that will be depending on these very important
Decentralized Web standards.

Thanks,

lisa


Lisa Rein

Co-Founder, Creative Commons
Co-Founder, Aaron Swartz Day

Chelsea Manning's Archivist
Digital Librarian, Dr. Timothy Leary Futique Trust

Received on Thursday, 21 September 2023 09:34:30 UTC