Hi Martijn,
Thanks for the clarification. For cases like the JCP awards, it may be unwritten, but a common understanding that for some categories people shoudn't nominate themselves. For other cases especially the JCP EC seats or similar (board or board-like) roles this is often not the case, especially for individual members (and e.g. Apache by definition only knows individuals;-)
So what's preferred in this case? I can't even say, if I have time. But others many of whom individuals probably are in a similar situation.
Although Mark felt offended by others advising not to call his package "javax" or similar, I was not the only one and there was no personal attack or language I'm aware of. In fact in the very first reply I suggested he may offer it to
microprofile.io since comparable frameworks and initiatives (e.g. DropWizard) contain similar features. It took a while, but it seems, he's following that advise now.
Cheers,
Werner