[macinjosh]

I disagree. Ask a panel of expert JS developers how something should be done and you'll get as many opinions as their are seats on the panel. In regulation it's the same but the decisions affect human lives and businesses that employ people.

Experts aren't unbiased either. It is nice when the experts you like are in power but what happens when someone else comes in?

[crazygringo]

So to continue the analogy, you'd rather have the board of the company, consisting of MBA CEO's, making decisions about a company's JavaScript standards?

Experts may disagree, but it's still a whole lot better than non-experts disagreeing.