- From: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 18:28:57 +0100
- To: public-w3process@w3.org
On 07/11/2016 16:15, Revising W3C Process Community Group Issue Tracker wrote: > w3process-ISSUE-175 (multiple hats?): Can a group member represent more than one organisation? [Process Document] > > http://www.w3.org/community/w3process/track/issues/175 > > Raised by: Charles McCathie Nevile > On product: Process Document > > Section 5.2.1 of the process includes the following requirement: > > [[[ > A participant MUST represent at most one organization in a Working Group or Interest Group. > ]]] > > In practice this is sometimes applied for voting and otherwise seems irrelevant - participants tend to represent whatever they know, and a number of them, claim not to represent even the organisation that sponsored them to join, just providing opinions on the issues. > > Propose to remove the restriction as unnecessary. And there are some WG Members that are employed by a Member itself contracting for another Member in the same WG. Happens all the time, is usually solved by sending a disclosure message to the Group. I would recommend that way of doing. Disclaimer: happened to me several times in the past in the CSS WG. </Daniel>
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