We, the W3C, were going to be the hegemon of the Web, with secret, members-only meetings, no public records of decision-making, and a brilliant strategy that, in combination with a lax U.S. Justice Department, made the Sherman Antitrust Act entirely irrelevant to the Web.  And all you legacy workers in the field?  You're either with us on all of that, and you're big enough to pay the membership fees and send your employees to the private meetings to collude with the employees of other such big players, or you will have no influence -- unless, of course, you agree to the secrecy and you turn out to contribute something that the big players turn out to like, uh, I mean, the Director turns out to like.