My initial reaction was to reject this out-of-hand as yet another chore for some group of underpaid volunteers. But on second thought, I believe you may have identified a really effective way to solve the "open standards" problem.
Industry players, in particular Microsoft, hate our appropriation of the term "open standards" to mean our version of patent and copyright licensing. They hate it almost as much as they hate our refusal to accept RAND, because they like to pretend their standards are open too. But if we let their captive standards organizations develop their standards and then *we bless* the open ones afterwards according to our own criteria, they can do whatever they want. Our list of approved open standards will prevail as the authority. Their standards will become worthless in the open source community without our stamp of approval.
It was a combination of brilliance and luck that led to being able to register the opensource.org domain name in 1998. Openstandards.org was registered in 2000, but has been dormant ever since. Perhaps the owner of that site could be contacted?
Brian
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