(Paris Institute of Technology - "a research and higher education cluster of excellence, is composed of twelve French Grandes Ecoles (Engineering and Business Schools) that cover a sweeping spectrum in science, technology and management.
The high professor/students ratio, the wide range of scientific disciplines covered and the quality of research at ParisTech attract the best students and scientists.")
Pierre Noizat
2012-01-20
http://www.paristechreview.com/2012/01/20/bitcoin-devise-complementaire-universelle/ (in French)
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.paristechreview.com%2F2012%2F01%2F20%2Fbitcoin-devise-complementaire-universelle
The Web has revolutionized the sharing and knowledge production; bitcoin transforms the social consensus of money creation, paving the way for a new economic freedom.
The concluding paragraph is an interesting comparison to the W3C.
Perhaps the proposed 'Bitcoin Foundation' will evolve into something like that
(https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-foundation-49841)