Hi,

The community might like to know that Mozilla has claimed authority to
publish a WebAssembly MVP and appears to have done so, and the claim is
signed by a Mozilla module peer.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/2017Feb/0002.html

I claim Mozilla had absolutely no authority to make that declaration as
the Chairs of the group were not appointed by a method chosen of the CG
as a whole and they had been asked to return the Chair and for elections
to be held and the W3C had investigated and appear to support that
position - that it was a matter for the group *as a whole* to choose and
thus not for Mozilla to dictate. Mozilla did not even seek consensus
from the CG in claiming consensus.

I was active in this area before the CG was created and was not
consulted before it's creation, and have not once been invited to the
backroom meetings. No minutes of CG business meetings or technical
meetings were posted to the CG.

I agree that more implementation experience is needed, the design is not
complete, but dispute the conclusion that it is ready to deploy. The web
community may well now invest a lot of resources working with a design
that is not complete and that will need significant change. It is not
simply a matter of adding 'future features' as Mozilla describe, rather
the design may need fundamental changes, something you may discover with
more 'implementation experience'. I can trivially demonstrate some of
these necessary changes, and many of the issues I file were closed
unresolved not flagged for future work.

I informed the Mozilla CEO that urgent action was necessary and made a
time limited offered to the module owner to peer the WebAssembly
component without response. The module owner went on the approve the
deployment of wasm 1.0. I attempted to escalate the review here
following published policies and absolutely no one has offered any
defence to my appeals here and yet Mozilla has allowed this to proceed.

Regards
Douglas Crosher
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