Re: Removing WebVR from W3C

WebVR is currently hosted as a W3C community group. Despite the name that
does not imply that WebVR must become a W3C working group. We could still
go off and become a Khronos standard if we deemed that to be appropriate
and Khronos wanted to have us, for example. But that ignores the basic fact
that we're generally not interested in officially joining a standards group
just yet. We'd prefer to finish getting some of the basics locked down
while we can be a bit more casual and fluid before settling down into a
more rigorous process.

We'll weigh the pros and cons of the various standards bodies when we're at
a point that we're ready to join one.

--Brandon

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:31 AM David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jul 11, 2017, at 9:25 , Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to express my vote of no confidence against the W3C. I
> believe the organization is inherently biased towards pushing DRM (for
> whatever reason I don't care to speculate). I think the W3C has become an
> inappropriate place to host a standard such as WebVR. The DRM discussion is
> highly contentious and unproductive and distracts from the real challenges
> of WebVR. It is my desire to see this standard hosted by a truly impartial
> body.
>
> One person has asked one question on this list about whether WebVR and
> protected media might work together, and from this you conclude inherent
> bias?
>
> I cannot agree with you more on this, though: "The DRM discussion is
> highly contentious and unproductive”.
>
> "Truly impartial" means that we don’t refuse to discuss technical matters
> that people want to discuss, by the way.
>
>
> David Singer
> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>
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