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pas on Aug 7, 2020 [–]

How does the IETF manages it? It operates by seeking broad consensus. That might work. Also getting a good compromise done should be in the interest of everyone. Plus there could be iterations every few years. (Like there's with JS/ECMAScript via TC39.)

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