Go away, kid, you bother me: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla kick W3C nerds to the curb

The organization that tries to advance web technology standards – the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C – has run into a roadblock: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla. Earlier this week, the four major browser makers expressed dissatisfaction with the W3C's DOM 4.1 specification, which defines a variety of new capabilities …

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Korean endeavor

The "w3c.org" mail (ETRI-AS-KR) appears to be routed to a south korean entity described as 'Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute':

https://ipinfo.io/AS3748

[Ken Moorhouse]

WHATWG

Sounds like some rather borderline review site.

[smallbang]

Browsers using W3C-anything should be flagged.

If it looks fake then it's probably fake. Very, very questionable conduct:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5AkySgiGA

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The dot org

The 'W3C's dot org is registered with a french registrar and with no mailing address

https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=w3c.org

[smallbang]

Active cyber incident

If anybody else can confirm it as South Korean, then the code they propose for adoption by browser publishers should be security audited. They appear to be focused on 'payments'

https://github.com/w3c

[MrReal]

Forking hell.