Standardizing JavaScript - a Look at Ecma and TC39
summary
ECMAScript is a worldwide, royalty-free standard that now publishes a new edition yearly (published around June) after roughly six in-person meetings and a formal stage 0–4 proposal pipeline; the committee moves specification work to GitHub, uses a new app to moderate meetings, and requires a 90-day IPR freeze before GA ballot. The spec has a conformance/regression test suite, editors who improved readable notation, and a history that included a ~10-year gap before these process fixes.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:39Who am I
- 5:26What is a standard
- 8:19Technical Description
- 10:01IP Policy
- 11:19Who is issuing the specifications
- 13:10Ecma
- 16:41Proprietary Standards
- 17:14Defacto
- 18:27De jure
- 19:11Voluntary Consensus
- 19:42Open Standards
- 24:09JavaScript History
- 26:42Proposal Process
- 28:17Publication Process
- 29:34TC39 Community
- 30:15Conclusion
- 30:48Outro
