I put my RFC on my maemopeople blog purely so it'd be syndicated to the planet (which is widely read). I also sent it to maemo-developers and Quim directly. There was lots of community discussion and consensus, but there was no official response from Nokia; given the carrot for gatekeepers was increased karma on maemo.org, it required that bit of official sanction. Also, Nokia/maemo.org involvement is necessary to not duplicate work (see the recent announcements about beta promotion interfaces and auto-builders)