Christoph Päper:
> Vendor (prefix) lock-in comes from
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> idea → implementation → release → proposal → standard
>
> which is a (simplified) scheme some players seems to favor, especially when they see early implementation (however imperfect) as an business advantage. The ideal open standard, W3C process, however, would be
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> idea → proposal → implementation → standard → release
> ↖ draft ↙
>
> The resulting actual process, currently, is more like
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> a)↗ implementation ↘
> idea ↑ release
> b)↘ proposal → draft ↙
>
> Once you hit the “release†stage you* hardly can remove prefixes that exist at this point, whatever they may be called.
