Mozilla or Firefox? about standards-positions HOT 6 CLOSED

It's also possible that we could make this a Firefox position throughout. A narrower scope might make it easier to take a position.

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Even though we are all technically part of the Firefox organization, there seems to be a public expectation of a "Mozilla position on X" (as sometimes things apply more broadly than a "browser's position").

However, I don't mind if we just go with "Firefox's position" throughout - but it might still leave people wondering if that position is different from "Mozilla's position", which seems more absolute and final.

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A Mozilla position seems clearer since folks are mostly looking for a position from the organization behind the browser. If at some point Mozilla becomes big enough to have multiple products with independent positions we could make it more specific, though even then it seems we should try to have positions that are consistent across products.

Anyway, I could settle for Firefox. I mostly want to remove the difference.

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I concur with Anne that we should say "Mozilla". However, in cases where the distinction is relevant, we might need to just use freeform comments. I'm inclined to think that we should lean in the direction of Firefox on those. So, say for instance that there was some browser feature which Firefox was skeptical of but Servo decided to experiment with. I think we could mark this as "defer" and then have comments like ("experiments going in in other browser, including Servo may inform this position in future"). Would that work for people?

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I think that's fine.

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