W3C Challenges

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.