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Current state: HTML is being developed outside of the W3C by a number of browser implementers, excluding Microsoft. The prevalent feeling amongst those that do so is that if the W3C doesn’t adopt their spec, the W3C will look dull.
Desired state: Many groups representing many different disciplines and constituencies contributing to HTML. Documents with the requisite amount of consensus are adopted by the W3C independent of their source.
Getting from here to there will be confusing. Those with a vested interest will portray portions of the truth in a way that will sound very plausible. This is an attempt to level set.