So, you don't like a web platform proposal
Blog post author here.<p>A few clarifications:<p>* I am not a contributor to the repo, and stepped in as chair on the repo <i>after</i> writing this, to help the engineers contributing to it deal with clear spam &amp; abuse cases. I wrote this post with WEI in mind, but nothing about it is specific to this proposal, and could&#x27;ve been applied to multiple past proposals (and probably future ones), either from Google or from other standards participants.<p>* Political&#x2F;ecosystem arguments <i>are</i> technical arguments. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.yoav.ws&#x2F;posts&#x2F;web_platform_change_you_do_not_like&#x2F;#risks" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.yoav.ws&#x2F;posts&#x2F;web_platform_change_you_do_not_li...</a><p>* If you&#x27;re objecting to the goals of the proposal [1], it&#x27;d serve you better to outline <i>which</i> goals are objectionable and <i>why</i>. Mozilla folks did a good job at articulating that in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;standards-positions&#x2F;issues&#x2F;852#issuecomment-1648820747">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mozilla&#x2F;standards-positions&#x2F;issues&#x2F;852#is...</a><p>A couple of things I should&#x27;ve included in that post and didn&#x27;t:<p>* It&#x27;s important to actually read and understand the proposal before objecting to it. For example, WEI has nothing to do with ad-blockers or DRM (in the sense that the content itself is not restricted, unlike EME). It does have real eco-system risks that the proposal would need to address before moving forward. Objecting to the latter makes sense. Objecting to the former is easy to dismiss as a misunderstanding.<p>* At the end of the day, in the case of Chromium, your goal is not necessarily to convince the proposal&#x27;s proponents, but the API owners [2], many of whom are <i>not</i> Google employees.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RupertBenWiser&#x2F;Web-Environment-Integrity&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;explainer.md#goals">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;RupertBenWiser&#x2F;Web-Environment-Integrity&#x2F;...</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;intent-to-explain-demystifying-blink.html#:~:text=What’s an “API owner”?" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.chromium.org&#x2F;2019&#x2F;11&#x2F;intent-to-explain-demystif...</a><p>P.S. I&#x27;d love to discuss this with y&#x27;all like professional adults. Can we do that?