> For my education, what is the W3C voting procedure?
From http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process-20010719/tr.html#Recs :
The W3C "Recommendation track" is the process that W3C follows to build
consensus around a Web technology, both within W3C and in the Web
community as a whole. W3C turns a technical report into a Recommendation
by following this process.
Yes, if just under 90% abstain, something can become an OASIS standard.
See http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php#approval_standard
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