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The standard and governing bodies has no right to demand anything. The internet is not a democracy. If they want something put the money where their mouth is. Until W3C ships their own browser engine and gets it into the hands of customers, relevance is nothing more than a nice-to-have.

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There are no members of the W3C other than browser (and web-server) manufacturers. When the members of the W3C decide on something, that’s the browser manufacturers deciding on that thing.

The real question, I suppose, is whether the people who interact with the W3C/WHATWG/etc. have decision-making power within the organizations they nominally represent. If not, then these bodies are kind of like the UN: nominally a place for treaties to be made, but in practice a place for ambassadors to glad-hand one-another while their leaders ignore the decisions they make.

You seriously want google to be defining what the internet is given their current and past activities and abuses? There is no way that could ever be a good thing. If they ever do expect a 50% carve out for targeted ad technologies.

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