MozCampEU2012/Standards: how and why we standardize: Difference between revisions

Summary: I want to have a discussion about standards and how Mozilla is and should be involved in standards.  In particular, I probably want to spend the first 10-15 minutes giving some brief background about how I look at our involvement in standards (both in terms of what we do and why) and about how standardization works at the W3C.  Then I'd like to open up to a discussion and questions about standardization:  what do you want to know?  What do you think we should or shouldn't be doing?  Potential topics for discussion (though I'm very open to others):  where to standardize, openness of standards process, patent policy, speed of process, getting the right parties involved, when the right time to standardize is, how to interact with and implement standards in development, speaking as an individual or on behalf of an organization, dealing with things that have to be private.

Expected Outcome or Deliverable: Improve understanding of how standards are created, how Mozilla participates in that creation, and how we think about whether and when to standardize.