Saw this and was reminded of @p 's excellent hellthread last week.

https://itsfoss.com/news/sovereign-tech-standards-program/

Slop summary but still accurate. It's an interesting idea on paper, getting normally unpaid FOSS people into official standards work. But I bet the actual people who get the money will be highly screened, on a tight leash, and carefully balanced for "representation" of the least helpful kind.