In reaction to @stevebate’s concern about coupling between the SocialHub, I clarified that SocialHub is only facilating the FEP Process, and that - though we create a discussion topic for each FEP in this forum by default - people are free to choose other channels and have the tracking issue in the FEP repo, to make those known.
Wrt the Standards Process it is important to mention that IMHO the SocialHub should not claim any authoritative role, just being the FEP facilitator, and otherwise be just another nice dev community themed “ActivityPub/Fediverse et al” in the decentralized ecosystem. Put that in this toot to Steve and @eprodrom:
I feel that it is important that #SocialHub does not assert authority. As a dev community on #ActivityPub it should be an attractive place to be part of and interact with others. That’s all. So it is just one hub in the decentralized ecosystem.
We seek collab with other communities, and have a liaison with the #SocialCG.
We facilitate the #FEP Process, but the process itself stands on its own.
So parentheses in 3-stage Standards Process: Ecosystem → FEP (SocialHub) → W3C.
Update: And also followed-up at SocialCG mailing list, on the same subject.