I probably already said that - I don't like the idea of 3-stage process. This proposal was accepted and now reflects how SocialWG operates in practice:
https://swicg.github.io/charters/stage-process
According to the document, FEPs are at the same level as blog posts. Even a successful and widely implemented FEP needs a "champion" who will sign [CLA](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-5219-groups-and-permissions/8855/8 ) and will present the FEP to the community group, which will bikeshed it to death. Even if it passes the initial filter of the community group, the document still needs to be reviewed by the working group, which is invite-only.
This is a ridiculous amount of red tape.
Compare this to the promise of the FEP process: you publish a FEP -> you convince other developers -> it becomes a de-facto standard.
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