International partners describe global alliance to enable secure sharing of genomic and clinical data (with several references to W3C)

"Over 70 leading health care, research, and disease advocacy organizations that together involve colleagues in over 40 countries have taken the first steps to form an international alliance dedicated to enabling secure sharing of genomic and clinical data. "

News item: https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/5046-0
White paper: https://www.broadinstitute.org/files/news/pdfs/GAWhitePaperJune3.pdf

What is remarkable is that the white paper makes several references to the W3C as a model that inspires how they want to build this alliance. I wonder if they also considered doing this AS PART of the W3C? Or if someone at W3C gave that consideration? 

Cheers,
Matthias