- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:02:42 +0100
- To: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
- Cc: Gias Kay Lee <balancetraveller@gmail.com>, "public-nextweb@w3.org" <public-nextweb@w3.org>
On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 8:49 AM, François REMY wrote: > If you join as an individual, you are directly responsible for what you say. If you join as a rep of your company, your company controls the membership. Well, kinda. Depends on the company. While most people work as a company, it is usually taken that a person speaks as an individual unless stated otherwise. For example, look at the DRM discussions: guys from Google are vocally fighting for and against. As a general rule, people's views are taken as their individual view and not the one of their company (unless stated otherwise). > There are also differences in the Intellectual Property Rights handling of what you may say or contribute to the group. Yep. > Since this group does not produce any normative content, this does not really apply to us. Correct. > > If your company isn’t a W3C member, the question does not even arrive anyway because you can’t register as a rep of your company under those conditions. I think that is correct. > > If we were a Working Group, it would be more difficult to join as an individual The WG Chair would need to justify why the Invited Expert is needed and make a case as to why their employer won't pay for to join the W3C. > but much simpler to join as a Member company representative, if I understood the discussion correctly. > > > > > You have. -- Marcos Caceres
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