Design

	IETF	W3C
Principal Design	ietf-draft/authors group (can be competitive)	submission/WG
Subsequent Design	calls between authors and list	conference calls (minuted) and list
Review	ietf-drafts	technical reports (<= 3 months)

There are substantive cultural differences:

1. the level of coordination between WGs.
2. the use of paid staff
3. the use of teleconferences.
4. the time frame and length (maturity) for specification advancement.
5. the use of ASCII versus HTML/XML (and philosophy of URIs)