Secret polls at Business, Community, Interest, Working Groups and others to ensure all participants views are captured

In order to build a culture of compliance no one should feel unable to speak out, or that in the event of speaking out that they will be ignored or that their concerns will not be recorded.

Transparency is core to the W3C mission. Accordingly, those supporting changes to existing process or standards put their organizational affiliation and name associated with their submissions.

The same is not true of voting to approve or reject a change. Given allegations of bullying cited in the US House Antitrust report, one method to enable people to more freely express their opinions would be to participate via secret ballot. This would ensure enhanced focus on the substance of the issue raised rather than the biases associated with the messenger or their employer. In my experience, multiple instances of bias have been expressed against entire industries that may act to stifle the very feedback W3C so values and undermines a culture of compliance.

This would also protect members accidentally engaging in collusion by being pressured to vote in accordance with the wishes of a different company, and those who would otherwise "go along with" the proposals for fear of making difficulties with businesses that are also important trading partners.