A duty of Negotiation

[jyasskin]

There are many stakeholders on the Web who show up to standards and other discussions to try to advance their interests. Users are very diffuse, and so without some way to collectively bargain, they'll usually get the short end of the stick. Browser developers have historically taken the role of advocating for users, and I think we should include that as one of the UA duties in this document. This doesn't mean that other organizations can't also advocate for users (CDT and Consumer Reports do a great job, for example), just that UAs are responsible to also do it.

This goes along with the permission in the Loyalty section to maintain credible commitments: the credible commitment is part of a deal users collectively make with web pages, and it's important that the deal a UA is upholding is as favorable to users as possible.

The EME negotiations make a good example of this, where some of the disagreement was over whether browsers were driving as hard a bargain as they could have.