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1# Web Platform Funding MSI
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3tl;dr: Multi-stakeholder initiative for funding work on web platform changes from standards/feature development and bug fixing in existing engines and also supporting a long term goal of a web platform engine which is independent of any one company, and collectively funded, governed, developed and maintained.
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5## Original text
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7- Status quo is largely intractable while the three web engines are captive to single-business goals.
8- The long term goal is engine commodification. We can't place one bet on a leapfrog moment where AI makes that happen soon.
9- A theory-of-change approach of walking back from that state would be engine diversity.
10- While we need to develop a shareable framework for articulating *why*, Servo is best choice today as 4th major engine.
11- My preference is to name and brand the org in a way that keeps the scope door open, while clearly putting Servo up front as first major urgent initiative as a way to build allies and momentum.
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13## Problem statement
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15- There are three web engines, each controlled by a single company
16- Each of those companies have their own business model
17- Each business model supports, benefits from the web
18- Each business model is conflict with a web that puts user needs first
19- This means that the shape of the web is difficult to change
20- It is slow to meet basic business needs outside of the three engine-makers
21- And only serves the largest common denominator
22- It's slow to react in crisis conditions
23- And does not serve those at the edges who need it most
24- The three web engine companies have no incentive to share power
25- Commodification of web engines is a long way off
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27## Scope & Activities
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29two core streams:
30- features and fixes on existing web engines
31- rapidly driving towards an independent web engine
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33what it does
34- identifies and organizes stakeholders
35- gathers and communicates stakeholder needs
36- drives collective decision-making on annual priorities
37- collects, pools and manages funds
38- deploys funding against those priorities
39- manages an ecosystem of implementers/maintainers (funding receivers)
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41what it does not do
42- build software itself
43- create new standards separate from w3c/ietf/etc
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45outcomes
46- coalition committed to an multi-stakeholder web engine (first in history)
47- circular sustaining ecosytem for collectively-governed web engine in 5yrs
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49## Stakeholders
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51non-business
52- end users
53- policy makers / regulators
54- NGOs
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56business
57- developer tools (eg Tauri)
58- phone makers (eg Huawei)
59- web engine makers
60- browser makers
61- publishers
62- dev consultancis (eg Igalia)
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64two classes
65- non revenue generating
66- revenue generating
67
68## Operations
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70structure
71- non-profit foundation in a suitable european country
72- rotating board
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74operations
75- staff: ED, admin
76- annual IRL meeting
77- quarterly remote stakeholder/community review meetings
78- monthly vendor meetings
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80## TODO
81
82- add timeline
83- no use of "consortium"