Ꮢ๐ϲoᴄo Ⅿoԁｅm Ᏼaｓіliｓk@Elizafox
I'm not sure any W3C standard has ever been "okay".
I mean, sometimes a W3C standard is strictly better than its typical non-compliant or marginally-compliant implementations, but that's because the bar is very low.
*cough*SMIL*cough*
@Elizafox
Like, somebody could write a spec to do what OStatus does, and make it sane. But, such a spec would never get W3C standardization.
For one thing, it probably wouldn't involve XML, which would kill it in the water.