Re: HCLS meeting record 2 Aug 2007

Ralph,

Thanks for the clarification on W3C membership-- that does sense.

Eric

On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Ralph R. Swick wrote:

>
> At 06:35 PM 8/6/2007 -0400, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
>> http://www.w3.org/2007/08/02-hcls-minutes
>
> ...
>
>>   hl7 is a member, and GE is a member of HL7,
>>
>>   does it make GE a member of W3C?
>
> no
>
>   "Membership is open to other organizations that themselves have
>   members ("membership organizations"). In this case, the benefits
>  of W3C Membership generally only extend to the staff and officers
>  of those organizations.  Benefits do not flow through to the
>   membership organization's own members."
>   -- http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership-faq#memberOrg
>
>


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