Standards bodies with money and memberships drift into gatekeeping
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whenever you put together a standards body, and especially when there's money involved, a lot of money involved, and there's memberships and all these sorts of things. There's a natural tendency for gatekeeping
Episode 16: and we're in the fourth quarter Batman. Got to add a little baby to it. (approx., from transcript intro) 00:13:56 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Recent experience shows podcasting's standards bodies and working groups slow-roll and accomplish little. Dave says there's a reason: when you form a standards body, especially with a lot of money and memberships involved, gatekeeping follows naturally. The established players who sit on the boards are experts at it.
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Episode 7: Episode 7 00:12:03 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
by creating a body, a standards body, and then designing a spec in private, and then just releasing it to the public. And what you get, when that happens is you get things like the Wi Fi Alliance standard,
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