Role of Chair (Was: Microsoft has now joined the HTML Working Group)

On Apr 5, 2007, at 11:35 , Matthew Raymond wrote:
>    Now that you're here, let the questions begin:

[snip]

Note that while Chris undoubtedly has a lot of interesting opinions  
on the topics you listed, the W3C clearly defines the role of a  
working-group (co)-Chair, not so much as a decision-making role, but  
as an organization [1] and consensus-buildind [2] role.

For those new to W3C, I would recommend giving the Introduction of  
the process document [3] a look, as the Process is very much the law  
and spirit of the land.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups.html#GeneralChairs
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#Consensus
[3] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/intro.html

Regards,
-- 
olivier