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W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium coordinates competing companies, experts, public participants, and implementers around open web standards. Its authority comes less from coercion than from credible process and adoption: consensus, implementation experience, review, formal objections, and patent commitments can keep the web larger than one vendor, while procedural complexity and unequal participation can still concentrate practical power.
How can rivals create shared technical rules without allowing any one implementation or institution to become the web's private governor?