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Thanks, interesting conversation. Biggest takeaways for me: 1. W3C FINALLY wrestling with its relationship to OSS projects and the implications for "monoculture". I watched MSFT go thru the stages of grief on WebRTC underspecified standards vs OSS code defining the de facto std 12-ish years ago...

... Dom's suggestion to focus on open governance and test suites more than multiple implementations seems like the most pragmatic path to mitigating the effects of monoculture. W3C probably needs to bake that into its process / culture as more of the web platform has only 1 serious implementer ...

2. Dom came close to acknowledging what I've observed for a while now: W3C is becoming more of a social hub for web geeks than the default venue for web-related technical standards. It could play a useful role in hosting problem analysis and incubation, then nudging stdizaiton to the right place...