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Re:WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation by thaumasiotes on Monday December 16, 2019 @12:24PM (#21804834)
...really? From my perspective, it's a bunch of companies that are known only for operating within China (360 / Alibaba / Baidu / Tencent), two hardware companies best known for being Chinese (Huawei / Xiaomi), and one I've never heard of (agora.io). Over half of the testimonials are in Chinese.

I'm curious too - was there really no non-Chinese company that would endorse this?

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Re:WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation by mcs_ on Monday December 16, 2019 @12:59PM (#21805236)
Well, apparently this was a real question.

W3C members are visible here: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

Those are the members that decided that WebAssembly is now an official web standard, not the testimonials.

I'm investigating more about the voting system here, https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ERB.html.

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Re:WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation by domenicd on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:57PM (#21805891)
The voting system is roughly: any paying member company can submit a "formal objection", which will be considered by W3C management ("on behalf of" Tim Berners-Lee). If upheld by management then the recommendation doesn't go forward. (This is very rare; I don't know of any instances off the top of my head.)
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