I got invited to chair a working group by a standards foundation (not w3c but they specs from them often end up getting into w3c after). And I am now debating if this is worth the time or if it is smarter to fully focus on building great software. Should i do it ?

On the one hand this area really needs some standards to help us get interoperable but on the other hand a spec is nothing without a great implementation. If I think of some recent new standards that succeeded it seems like they first start with great software like Mastodon->ActivityPub , RabbitMQ->AMQP, kNative/serverless -> CloudEvents (not thoroughly researched)… So I hope that it won’t subtract more dev time than its worth.

Other benefits of leading the working group : networking and getting lots of feedback on our implementation plans

The context is HR tech and we plan to raise money next year but are actively intentionally not yet building the final product because there are so many different architectures that we need to try to find the best one.