Re: Removing WebVR from W3C

Brandon,

About 3 hours before you posted this, I got a message from Dominique 
Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org> [Subject: WebVR Working Group charter under 
W3C AC review] through this list stating that a proposed WebVR working 
group charter was submitted today. 
[https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2017Jul/0002.html]. 
Review date cutoff is 18 August.

That action by the W3C seems to directly contradict your second 
sentence. Please comment.

Leonard Daly


> 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 
> <mailto:singer@apple.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     > On Jul 11, 2017, at 9:25 , Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com
>     <mailto: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.
>
>

-- 
*Leonard Daly*
3D Systems Architect & Cloud Consultant
President, Daly Realism - /Creating the Future/