Sometimes the W3C standards body feels like a tycoons backroom. For such a public and important standard to live in a world of secrecy is plain wrong. Now and then we get sniffs of information but can’t put together the puzzle and thus are left with rumour and speculation.
For example, we have this conversation from HTML WG minutes:

Larry Masinter of Adobe (masinter): do I need to repeat objections?
paulc: the co-chairs are aware of the formal objection
rubys: it would be helpful to repeat the objection
paulc: it would be helpful to people who aren’t reading w3-archive email
plh: we won’t approve the FPWDs until the FO is resolved
masinter: sure, i’ll forward my comment on scope
paulc: plh and larry, can you post the FO on the public-html list and the affects on the plans?
(plh and larry each agree)

What is that about? Hixie talks (on what he can) about how “the latest publication of HTML5 is now blocked by Adobe, via an objection that has still not been made public (despite yesterday’s promise to make it so)…

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