Submit to a standards body

[mooreds]

Hi folks,

Apologies if this isn't the correct place, but I'm wondering if/why you haven't submitted this to a standards body. Seems like a great thing to go through the w3c or IETF process to become a full blown standard, rather than a vendor consortium document. I saw this which discussed related efforts.

Here's a list of the IETF working groups. I'm not familiar with all of them, but there may be a fit.

Is this something for the future, or an action you've considered and then discarded? If the latter, I'd love to know why. If the former, I know a few folks who work on standards who would good to chat with to discuss appropriate steps.

[sjatwood]

Along the same lines, I'm curious about the relationship (if any) between this effort and the WebSub protocol which was a W3C recommendation from 2018: https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/

Skimming through the spec, there seems to be some similarity/overlap (e.g. use of HMAC for auth). Have you all reviewed that older standard? It would be nice to align where feasible and/or highlight gaps in that existing spec that this effort is aimed at addressing.