But attempting to achieve the goal is worth our effort. For me, perhaps the biggest and most important and arguable point you made was the one about Sun retaining the standards. I understand their reservations, but I know what happens to proprietary standards. Sun, I think, is deferring true open standards until they think they can own the leadership of the standard body. Sun knows that consensus never did anything profound.
Leadership makes things happen.
Consensus bodies don't understand the concept of leadership.