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No, the purpose of the W3C is to make sure we don't end up with multiple slightly different, mutually incompatible variations of the same thing. It's not meant to be a gatekeeper for new features.

That said, Portals _are_ going through the normal W3C process for experimental features via the Web Incubator Community Group: https://wicg.github.io/portals/

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Wait, how many different local data storage standards are there again? I keep forgetting which ones are deprecated by which browsers.

W3C is a joke. The modern web is, like the old web, run by the dominant browser vendor. Calling it an open standard is just marketing.

And the "standard" is written entirely by Google, and soon to be released in Chrome. The W3C and IETF are so thoroughly captured as to be little more than two small technical documentation groups at Google. It's the old Microsoft playbook, disguised at the expense of two decreasingly-credible industry standards bodies.

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