Re: [charter-html] Indicate relationship with the WHATWG (#112)

I think the W3C has a choice to make. Does it want to be an organization whose main value proposition is to take work that others have done, and re-brand it and pass it through its own value system and IPR pipeline? Or does it want to be a place to encourage original work and collaboration?

Traditionally, much of the work on the core platform has been of the former sort. And indeed, looking at the proposed charter, a large swathe of the in-scope work items are of that fashion. If that's the direction that the Web Platform working group wants to take, I'd suggest making it explicit, and probably expanding the scope so that you can also start copying specs from Ecma, ISO, and the IETF. The consensus definitions and IPR policies at those organizations are different (especially the IETF), and so I'd suggest expanding the charter to include HTTP, the network stack, the JavaScript language, Internationalization, module systems, and more.

On the other hand, if the Web Platform working group wants to be a place for original work to take place, then it would be best for it to make a clear break with the copy-and-pasting past embodied in the HTML and (to a lesser extent) webapps working groups. In that case, excising the "intent to copy and paste" from the charter would be a welcome sign of a reinvigorated W3C that wants to position itself as a place to do original work.

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