What problem does it solve? Companies face recurring questions about open standards - whether to join a working group, certify against a profile, donate a spec to a foundation, or fight a rival protocol - and usually answer them with vague commitments instead of a defensible decision. This Skill turns one named specification into a concrete posture with a venue, patent-licensing mode, conformance plan, KPIs, and a kill rule. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Seven-rung posture ladder: Evaluates Ignore, Consume, Conform, Extend, Contribute, Co-found, and Drive against demand, commoditization, control, and cost tests, deleting ruled-out postures rather than demoting them. - Venue and IPR selection: Compares Git-based specs, foundations, consortia, IETF, W3C, and ISO transposition across efficiency, neutrality, effort, and compliance cost, including royalty-free versus RAND patent regimes. - Conformance and decision record: Plans the certification mark, test suite, registry, and fees, then produces a 1-2 page decision record with sourced-versus-baseline thresholds and a kill rule. - Use Case: A competitor publishes a rival spec and buyers stall. The Skill classifies the standards war using Shapiro and Varian's framework, then recommends a merge on named terms instead of a feature race. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to decide whether your company should join the working group standardizing a named protocol or ship its own format.
