W3C faces a number of challenges:
- Commercial acceptance (cf. browser wars):
- Software vendors may refuse to deploy new standards
- User acceptance:
- User may not use of new standards (it's too complex / expensive, …)
- Patent issues
- Software vendors may claim patents on new standards
- Complexity
- The wide range of new standards makes deployment too difficult
- Organisational issues
- W3C is facing too many difficulties in growth, politics, etc.