W3C has been a long standing consortium for the development and support of web standards. However, in many ways it has also been a hinderance to the community and the uptake of standards in development.
Benefits:
- A way for community to come together, collaborate, and research on improving web standardization efforts
- Shape the future of how web is used
- Connect with thought leaders across the world
- Develop consistency, accessibility, compatibility across the community
Drawbacks:
- The community members tend to be academic and often very arrogant in their selective interaction and collaboration
- Community members tend to be racist and discriminatory
- Practical compliance and ethics often seems as an afterthought
- A disconnect between academic members vs industry members
- A disconnect between cultural differences across the spectrum of web standards
- Majority of academic members are biased and lack basic ethics
- Lots of favoritism for selective academic members especially for specific sponsored members
- Processes, tools, and methods are antiquated
- Standardization efforts are slow moving and lack basic practical insights from industry
- Collaboration and communication is often discriminatory in nature, don't be suprised if the person on the other end assumes you are a clueless buffoon, showcasing an unapproachable attitude of a lot of members within the community
- Egotistic and arrogant members ruins collaborations which leads to a dwindling community of active members
- A lot of the W3C standards are not in favor anymore in industry or are outdated
- Web standardization efforts is not progressing fast enough to keep up with the ML/DL community
