Re: "You call that a standard?" and Charter

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From: "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org>
To: "WAI-GL" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:01 PM
Subject: "You call that a standard?" and Charter



This interview with Robert Glushko will be of quite considerable
relevance
to WAI's dealings with its participants.

<http://news.com.com/2102-1013_3-5200672.html?tag=st.util.print>

I note that the Charter advanced today by Wendy--

<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004AprJun/0194.html>
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004AprJun/0194.>


Roberto:
Charter is based to the process document, that has been developed by W3C
and approved by W3C Representative. W3C is a consortium that define
guidelines where there is the possibility also for external people to
partecipate.
I work also with UNI/ISO and in these consortium "private" cannot
partecipate: every people that wanna develop an ISO must be a
representative of an ISO national organization and this person can be a
member of an international ISO working group *if and only if* the
national working group approve his nomination.
So, at least, W3C has more "democracy" for partecipation than every
other organization.
So.. at the end: wanna have more "benefits" than an "invited expert"?
Become W3C member, pay the membership feed and you have more
rapresentativity and possibility of activity.

Roberto Scano (rscano@iwa-italy.org)
IWA/HWG International Project Manager and EMEA Coordinator
International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild
W3C Advisory Commitee Representative for IWA/HWG
W3C WCAG Working Group Member - W3C ATAG Working Group Member
http://www.iwanet.org - http://www.hwg.org
E-Mail: emea@iwanet.org - w3c-rep@iwanet.org
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